Neverland

I was just thinking, being young is beautiful. There is so much beauty in the freedom we get when we grow up.

It's my own house,
My own rules,
my own life.

Now I thought about how someday it will all be mine. Well, it would be, but all that freedom also comes with more decisions, and more responsibility.

Ew, a grown-up word.

If we all developed mentally normally, we would all be interested in the opposite sex, want to have a meaningful career and fun career, and when everything was free. That would be an awesome way to live, wouldn't it?

Of course, that would be too easy.

If I didn't have any responsibility, I would probably hang out with my boyfriend all day long and forget everything else.  I wouldn't have a job that I'm committed to or a family that I was committed to.

A life without commitment sounds even better. Close your ears, it's another adult word.

We make commitments to people, values, morals, jobs, careers, and contracts.

You worked in kindergarten, and your only responsibility was to play in the way your imagination allowed you to. Like Barbie's riding on a horse to save Ken.

In first grade, you are introduced to a necessary evil for the first time, homework. The keyword is homework is work. Now, that doesn't sound like any fun, does it?

Skip ahead to middle school, and your responsibilities are doing your homework and making friends. Usually extracurricular activities are at the top of the list.
The work gets harder, we still lack the adult concept of commitment.

Fast Forward to college. College is where your responsibilities include getting/working a part time job, and you make what we get money. Money buys things. You can't steal, so you buy. Then you choose a "major". Then you make a serious commitment to what you want to do with your life. Now it may seem like a long term commitment, but it really is a short term commitment, but a commitment none the less.

Jump ahead to the time after college, and you finally get a job. You commit to the job, you commit to the world and the code of ethics and conduct. Then you have more and more work to do, and you don't get paid for not doing anything or having no skills, so now your workload ain't easy.

Oops, you met the man of your dreams when you spill coffee on him. Great. Then you fall in love. Oh yay! Now it's time to make another fucking commitment. Get married, have kids, buy a house and yadda yadda. Now you're committed and you can never get out, you can get out of the marriage, but not the kids.

You commit and now have responsibilities of bills, money, and children. Fuck. Ok, so commitments and responsibilities suck.

I wish we could all grow up mentally, without any of the ugly grownup things, like money, responsibilities and commitment. We should live in Neverland, where we grow as people, but never as adults.

But without any of this, life would be boring and uneventful. Nothing worth working for is easy, and here comes another adult world:

Accomplishment.