Growing up Child

Growing up, now there is a subject as a kid I loved to think about. We all want to grow up when we are a kid, and when our parents mention the fact we had better enjoy our childhood while it lasts, well, we scoff. I know I did, I wanted to grow up so bad that I never considered the fact when I reached that point, I’d honestly want to be a kid again. When we are children, we never really consider the fact when we grow up we’ll have to pay bills, work, and tend the house. Growing up to us is like getting to reach things on the top shelf, not having to go to bed at a certain time, and of course getting to do more “grown-up things,” but is speeding through a childhood without enjoy it really worth growing up. If I could go back, I would most certainly take the time to enjoy the world as a kid – instead of constantly wanting to be a “grown-up”. Now that I am an adult, turning 18, I hate having to be an adult. Where did all the fun go? It turned into work, bills, and constant stress! I don’t think I can stress enough to young kids to just enjoy being a kid.

I never thought, growing up, that’d I would be the one spoiling all the fun by telling a youngster to just
“cool their heels” that growing up will come soon enough. When they finally get to the point of being an adult, they’ll regret not living as a kid – it is just the era, kids for centuries have been excited to grow up and ignored the fact being a kid has its benefits! I mean when you are a kid, your parents pay the bills, feed you, cloth you, take you to school and you don’t have to worry about a thing. Once you pass the age of being a child, you have to start fending for yourself. That is when the fun diminishes and it comes down to being stressful everyday work.

Happy Never After

Is the really such a thing as, happily ever after?

I’d like to think there is, but what is the actual definition of happily ever after? Is it to be married to the man of your dreams, your “prince charming” so to speak, maybe it is to be living your so-called “dream life” where everything is hunky-dory all of the time. Well, I don’t think, in my personal opinion I don’t believe in such a thing – you just don’t reach a point in your life where everything goes from being hard to a walk in the park. I feel that no matter where you are in your life, that you will struggle to obtain all the riches and spoils you so desire. Unless of course, you are a movie star or a millionaire who has money to waste on mediocre things that the average Joe can only dream of possessing. I don’t think that one person in America who is working in the economy we have right now, can honestly say that “things come easy.” If they can, then they really must not be working that hard to begin with. I tend to be a pessimistic about a lot of things, because usually the worst happens – and that 1% of the time when something worthwhile occurs you get maybe 5 seconds of satisfaction before something else comes along. Yes, I do have a fiancé who I am engaged to – but our relationship has been far from “hunky-dory,” we have accommodated some of the worst pitfalls a relationship can have. Would I say that we are going to live “happily ever after” now that we have it all worked out? No, life is one curve ball after another and in the end we will never be truly satisfied with where we are in life.

A lot of people would say we choose to be miserable, and to those people all I can honestly say is kiss my ass. I don’t chose to not have money, and it isn’t like I haven’t tried to get a better job – and I will keep trying until I get more money. However, just because I get a better job and get paid more does not mean that all the economical troubles I am facing now will just vanish. Life, as I stated before, is a constant struggle between good and evil – we fight the odds every single day. That doesn’t mean happily ever after doesn’t exist. It does, in those fucked up Hollywood movies that glorify a false happiness that we all desire.