Nostalgia

Its easy to say that simplicity is best sometimes. Within simplicity there is only black and white, wrong and right, there are no gray areas to be concerned about. Simplicity is at its best when we're young. There is no reasoning to be explained, no hard questions to answer. Often I find myself yearning to be younger so that I don't have to have a job, be responsible and pay bills, go to college (although I do like college, I passed with 3 A's, 2 B's and a 2.73 GPA), and generally do appropriate adult things. Yes I do have more freedom than I did as a child and I am making my own money to buy the things that I want and need, but where is the childish freedom? When becoming an adult you have to grow and and realize that there is a fine line between being a kid like teenager and a young whipper snapper who is giving back in the adult world.

I sometimes miss those mid-day nap times and coloring outside the lines. Although I am learning more and more things its still sometimes hard to grow up from watching old cartoons like Sailor Moon and Woody the Woodpecker. I still remember watching The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers everyday after school. There are times when I wish that I could go back to these days to remember what its like to be a kid again. Then I remember that although I am now a young adult that I can still be a little kid sometimes, I can still get excited about cartoons and cereal on Saturday mornings and sleeping in on Sundays.

Even though I have to go to college so I can reach my dream job I can still have my summer vacation. Point one for me! I can still have my lazy summer days, when I don't work that is. Late nights and Livin' the Life...in the Sims that is. I can say that my trip down nostalgic memory lane is over now.

Life Lesson: You can grow up AND still be a kid!