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Give Me Adulthood Any Day
Sep. 4th, 2013 09:37 pmI see and hear quite often people yearning for their childhoods. Academically, this is something I can understand; to a certain degree childhood was simple and uncomplicated. I guess there's an appeal in that.
I, however, much prefer being an adult. I like the freedom. I like the self-responsibility, the relationships, the planning, pretty much everything about it. I shouldn't eat ice cream for dinner any more now than then but at least that's a choice I'm making. I don't have to live by anyone else's rules except for those I accept. I go to sleep when I want, read what I want, watch what I want, go to places that I want to go. There are a lot of things that I don't have a lot of choice about but there are so many things that I do get to choose compared to before that I'm much happier now.
Taxes and bills and work? Those are annoyances but they're worth the rest of it. There isn't really anything I miss about childhood. Perhaps if mine had been happier...but no, I don't think so. I live life by my own terms now, and that's a freedom that means more to me than anything else. I look back at my past and see things I wish I had done better, decisions I wish I'd made and I certainly agree with the statement that youth is wasted on the young. But would I give up the better life I have made more myself for a simpler time?
Hell no. Even the hard times, the mistakes I make are mine and mine alone. Adulthood has been better than I could have hoped for and there's no way I'd give it up willingly.
I, however, much prefer being an adult. I like the freedom. I like the self-responsibility, the relationships, the planning, pretty much everything about it. I shouldn't eat ice cream for dinner any more now than then but at least that's a choice I'm making. I don't have to live by anyone else's rules except for those I accept. I go to sleep when I want, read what I want, watch what I want, go to places that I want to go. There are a lot of things that I don't have a lot of choice about but there are so many things that I do get to choose compared to before that I'm much happier now.
Taxes and bills and work? Those are annoyances but they're worth the rest of it. There isn't really anything I miss about childhood. Perhaps if mine had been happier...but no, I don't think so. I live life by my own terms now, and that's a freedom that means more to me than anything else. I look back at my past and see things I wish I had done better, decisions I wish I'd made and I certainly agree with the statement that youth is wasted on the young. But would I give up the better life I have made more myself for a simpler time?
Hell no. Even the hard times, the mistakes I make are mine and mine alone. Adulthood has been better than I could have hoped for and there's no way I'd give it up willingly.
