MY RESIGNATION

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I've decided I'd like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.  I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and draw on the sidewalk with chalk.

I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.  I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.  When all you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair.  That everyone is honest and good.  I want to believe that anything is possible.  I want to be oblivious to all the complexities of life, and be overly excited by the little things again, like popcorn, and shiny new pennies.  Like birthday parties, and magic, and the circus, and balloons.

I want to live simple again.  I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, or mountains of paperwork, or depressing news, or struggling to survive more days in the month than the accumulation of doctor bills, insurance payments, money in the bank, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and in the value of making angels in the snow.

So. . . here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements.  I am officially resigning from adulthood.  And if you want to discuss this further, well then, you'll have to catch me first, cause. . .  Tag you're it!
 

Hope ya'll join me!  (((((HUGS)))))

      Pass this on to someone and brighten their day by helping them to remember the simple things in life.

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