skinny dippin'

Sometimes I wake up wishing I could skinny dip in the fountain of youth.

I decided that growing up consists of a reality overload.

Is it bad that somedays I want to act and be a kid again?

I want to play a game of tag in a park near my house.

I want to soar on the trampoline with the sprinklers on.

I want to throw myself a birthday party and play duck duck goose.

I want to find an empty box and imagine it as my very own race car.

I want to grab a handfull of blankets and make a fort night.

Unfortunately, if I did any of those activities let alone bring them up while i'm out with a group of friends, I would literally be shunned.

I'm jealous of a little kids lifestyle; they have it made. 

growing up comes with too many responsibilities, too many heartaches, too many goodbyes, too many changes and too many expenses. 

But with every double negative comes a positive, right? 

So lets hope with all those lists of negatives, 

growing up ends up being the best time of my life. 

But growing up comes with a lot of wishing: 
I wish I could wrap my arms around my friends and family

 that have passed on to a better life 

I wish I could wear whatever I wanted and get away with it like a little kid can.

I wish I could spend time with my girlfriends again and laugh for hours and hours as we all sleptover in the fort we just built. 

I wish I could find and bring back the friends that have fallen away. 

I wish I could have all my family back living under the same roof.

People move on, fall away and even pass on in this life but with as many wishes I can throw out or want, life is what it is; but that is the beauty of it all. Sure growing up has its pains but it also has its beauty. A painful beauty that you thrive for. I will have those days where I wish I was six years old again but growing up is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It is the best love-hate relationship I will ever be in. So here's to growing up. 
The terrible, the bad and the best. 
Live it up, live free, and live everyday like it is your last.