Adult Resignation

To Whom It May Concern:


I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.

I have decided I would 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 make ripples with rocks.

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. 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 the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.

I want to live simple again.


I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, 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 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, you'll have to catch me first, cause, "Tag! You're it!"

Thanks!  I needed that!

If only we really could...

Are we  having one of thoee days?    and how many Brits would ACTUALLY play tag with you anyway?   

I am seriously up for a  good game of kickball!!

Thats way cool! I did some of those things, but unfortunately my childhood wasn't that great....I WANT YOURS!!!!!

Wait!! You left out hide and seek....that I had fun with.....

 
Just saw it and felt like posting it.  (I didn't write it, but certainly had a similar childhood, so no complaints there)

Then I saw this:

To Whomever Wrote or Read the Original Resignation:

I hereby reject your resignation.  While you may, as I hope to, refrain from
joining the ranks of the "grown-ups", escaping the responsibilites of an adult
cannot be allowed.  You see people who need help?  Help them.  You see
a world that has problems?  Do all you can to fix them.  The magic of being
an adult is the ability to actually do something about the difficulties you have
come to recognize around you.  The answer is not to return to the oblivion
of childhood; the answer is to use everything you have learned, both the
happy things and the unpleasant ones, to make a difference.  The world needs
you to be an adult and commit to make a difference.

You do not have to be a "grown-up" and leave behind the enjoyments of
childhood.  I go to McDonald's and get Happy Meals and am just as content
as if I had gone to four star restaurant.  I play in puddles.  I believe that
the world is overall a good place and the majority of people in it are honest
and good and deserving of my love.  Though I see and have learned from
experience that this is not always the case, how much happier I am to hope
and work to make it so no matter how often I am told and even sometimes
think that it cannot be.

With all my heart I believe anything is possible.

I AM overly excited by little things, reading IS fun, the music I choose to
hear IS clean, and I avoid anything on television that is not the news or
family entertainment.  If I was especially upset by the television programming,
I would use my power as an adult to try to change it and make a difference.

Perhaps I am naiive in thinking that because I am happy, I have the
responsibility to do all I can to make everyone else happy.

There is a place for forgetting everything and taking a break on a sandy beach
or up a tree or on a bike, for leaving behind bills and work and bad news and
illness.  And when I am rested and ready to return to the fight, what can I do
to help someone else have a desperately needed moment of peace?

I DO believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace,
dreams, imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.  These things
are all realities in my life.

Much of this is simply attitude, and I choose my attitude, as do you.  I choose
to retain much of the joy and excitement of childhood.  I choose to have a
positive attitude.  I choose to be happy.  When life is hard, I choose to not look
back and wish for the past or to focus on myself and what I want, but I choose
to look around and see who needs a hand and where I can make a difference.

I thank you for your letter because I have many times wished to return to
childhood, and your letter has helped me see that that is not really what I want.

I want to make a difference.

Thanks for listening.  I have learned something new tonight and just had
to share.  I leave you with a poem by Edward Everet Hale:

I am only one
But still I am one
I cannot do everything
But still I can do something
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do that something I can do
And what I can do
I ought to do
With God's help I will do.

...which I also feel I could have written - well, 'cept for the 'God' part, but that's just my personal choice.

So... food for thought, eh?  It can work BOTH ways.

I am only one
But still I am one
I cannot do everything
But still I can do something
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do that something I can do
And what I can do
I ought to do

very well said!