I Resign

Author Unknown

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.

I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6 year old again.

I want to go to a fast food place 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 that small candies are better than money because you can eat them.

I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and watch the ants march up its trunk.

I want to run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer day.

I want to think a quarter is worth more than a dollar bill 'cause it's prettier and weighs more.

I want to go fishing and care more about catching the minnows along the shore than the biggest fish in the lake.

I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all I knew were colors, addition tables and nursery rhymes; when I didn't know what I know now.

I want to believe that the world is fair and that everyone in it is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is possible.

I want to think that everyone, including myself, will live forever because I don't know the concept of death.

I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.

I want to naively think that everyone else is happy because I'm happy.

I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean; when television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence and deceit.

I want to again be able to walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I can find.

I would again like to spend my afternoons climbing trees and riding my bike.

I wouldn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car.

I would wonder what I would do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out.

I want to live simple.....yeah.....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 the loss of loved ones.

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, dreams, peace, justice, love, the imagination, mankind, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, a kiss that makes a boo boo go away, making angels in the snow and that my parents are the strongest and smartest people in the world.

I want to be 6 again.

So...here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit cards and the bills too, my 401K statements, my stocks & bonds, my collections, my insurance premiums, my job, my house and the payments too, my e-mail address, pager, cell phone, computer and watch.

And if you want to discuss this with me further, you'll have to catch me first 'cause.....

Tag! ... You're it!!!

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