Miss being a kid!
July 31, 2008
Earlier this month, I celebrated my 27th birthday. At the present time, three weeks later, it is yet to sink in that I am 27. In three years I will hit the 30-year marker! (SCARY) It’s fast approaching the time when I will start balding and my knee joints would not work as well as they used to; well, that’s what I’ve been told anyway.
It seems as though it was just yesteryear that I was celebrating my entry into adulthood at what was a surprise Birthday Party in Washington, DC. Now I am even closer to the 30-year marker. I am almost 3 decades old and my younger friends seem to enjoy reminding me of that; that I am now ‘old’.
As I look back at my life, I am often tempted to be envious of the years I’ve spent as a child where I had little responsibility but to eat, sleep and go to school (if you want to call those responsibilities). Food, clothes, airplane tickets and everything else all seemed to appear out of thin air. Bills? What bills? Work? What is work? All I knew is that my dad and mom went away for a couple hours every day and every material thing was there when I needed it. I miss being a kid!
Akhenaton
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I miss being a kid too. I feel your pain there. In addition to missing all the great things about being a kid… I also miss having someone to go to when you wanted to cry. I’ve heard it doesn’t matter how old you are, you always want your mom when you have a booboo.
Gosh, I say it all the timeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
I miss being a kid too when like you I think about the responsibilty of BILLSSSSSS..
Gosh I wish that that phrase” Money dont grow on trees”, that we used to hear was NOT true!
Maybe I’m weird but for a long time I looked forward to being like, oh say 40 or 50. I wasn’t unhappy or anything, I just imagined -perhaps mistakenly -that I’d have it all “together” by then.
Now that I’m on the other side of 30, I’m also trying to be more intentional about living in the moment. I’m also more aware of the practical downsides of aging. Still…I have this underlying sense that good things are in store. Heard this fun quote from the Sex and the City movie.
“Have fun, that’s what your twenties are for, your thirties are for learning the lessons and your forties….are for paying for the drinks.” –
Carrie Bradshaw
Maybe I’m weird but for a long time I looked forward to being like, oh say 40 or 50. I wasn’t unhappy or anything, I just imagined -perhaps mistakenly -that I’d have it all “together” by then.
Now that I’m on the other side of 30, I’m trying to be more intentional about living in the moment. I’m also more aware of the practical downsides of aging. Still…I have this underlying sense that good things are in store. Heard this quote from the Sex and the City movie:
“Have fun, that’s what your twenties are for, your thirties are for learning the lessons and your forties…are for paying for the drinks!”
–Carrie Bradshaw
Hey, being able to pay for the drinks with a few life lessons under my belt sounds like fun to me!
Hell, im only 18 and i “miss being a kid”
Thats because when i was growing up me and my older brother used to go down the road to the park to play football (or soccer) with our friends. Or when it was summer and we all use to hang outside our house to played curbee (a street game involving trying to hit the curb for points)
Or when me and my friends use to go to play in a football 5-a-side league on Friday nights.
Now my brother’s moved away and i rarely if ever see those friends anymore.
So i guess that’s what that song means “dont it always seem to go that you dont know what you’ve got til its gone”- counting crows
cheerio!