I resign

I've always loved this poem. Esp. the part in purple, it used to be my email signature for years.

I think, it's pretty cute.

"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 an 8-year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald's 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 M&Ms are better than

money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a

lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple.

When all you knew were colors,

multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes,

but that didn't bother you,

because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.

All you knew was to be happy because you

were blissfully unaware of all the things

that should make you worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair.

That everyone is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is possible.
I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life

and be overly excited by the little things again.

I want to live 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 loss of loved ones.

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs,

a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams,

the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So... here's my chequebook and my car keys,

my credit cards and all my responsibility.

I am officially resigning from adulthood.