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Resignation

cookie97
cookie97 CSN Member Posts: 200
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
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.

And if you want to discuss this further,
you'll have to catch me first,
'cause,

"Tag! You're it."

~
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  • Jean 0609
    Jean 0609 CSN Member Posts: 2,462
    #2
    Love it!
    This is great.
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  • RE
    RE CSN Member Posts: 4,591 Member
    #3
    :-)
    Awww such sweet memories this brought back, thank you!

    RE
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  • RE
    RE CSN Member Posts: 4,591 Member
    #4
    :-)
    Awww such sweet memories this brought back, thank you!

    RE
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  • sal314
    sal314 CSN Member Posts: 599 Member
    #5
    Love It!!
    I'd join you in a second!! Awwwwww....to be young again! :)

    Sally
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  • beetle25
    beetle25 CSN Member Posts: 150 Member
    #6
    sal314 said:

    Love It!!
    I'd join you in a second!! Awwwwww....to be young again! :)

    Sally

    Count me in I want to resign
    Count me in I want to resign from adulthood also. What a great poem
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  • Texasgirl10
    Texasgirl10 CSN Member Posts: 668
    #7
    beetle25 said:

    Count me in I want to resign
    Count me in I want to resign from adulthood also. What a great poem

    Me too
    I want to resign too :)
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  • roseann4
    roseann4 CSN Member Posts: 992 Member
    #8
    Texasgirl10 said:

    Me too
    I want to resign too :)

    Let's all resign....
    and go out to play.

    Roseann
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  • phoenixrising
    phoenixrising CSN Member Posts: 1,508
    #9
    OMG, how did you know???
    OMG, how did you know??? That's exactly what I want to do, LOL!
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  • KathiM
    KathiM CSN Member Posts: 8,027 Member
    #10
    You can't tag me.....
    I am rubber, you are glue,
    What slides off me, sticks to YOU!!

    Neener, neener!!!

    Thanks for the smiles!!! Lately, the world has become too real for me, too!!!!

    Hugs, Kathi
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  • Jean T. Szabo
    Jean T. Szabo CSN Member Posts: 193
    #11
    RE said:

    :-)
    Awww such sweet memories this brought back, thank you!

    RE

    Gotcha
    This is my dream come true!!!
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  • smalldoggroomer
    smalldoggroomer CSN Member Posts: 1,184
    #12
    Lets all resign and tomorrow
    Lets all resign and tomorrow go to Mcdonalds eat a happy meal get some M&M's and play on the play ground OK??? We can all get dirty!! those were the days weren't they..
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  • carkris
    carkris CSN Member Posts: 4,553 Member
    #13
    smalldoggroomer said:

    Lets all resign and tomorrow
    Lets all resign and tomorrow go to Mcdonalds eat a happy meal get some M&M's and play on the play ground OK??? We can all get dirty!! those were the days weren't they..

    your epidermis is showing.
    your epidermis is showing. nah nah
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  • warrrior3
    warrrior3 CSN Member Posts: 92
    #14
    carkris said:

    your epidermis is showing.
    your epidermis is showing. nah nah

    I love seeing
    the world through children's eyes. Going to Mcdonald's now with a bag of M&M's for an appetizer!
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  • fauxma
    fauxma CSN Member Posts: 3,577 Member
    #15
    warrrior3 said:

    I love seeing
    the world through children's eyes. Going to Mcdonald's now with a bag of M&M's for an appetizer!

    That brought back memories.
    That brought back memories. I also want to splash in puddles on a rainy day.
    Stef
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  • KayNYC
    KayNYC CSN Member Posts: 495 Member
    #16
    If we could for only a day...
    I think we could benefit from a resignation from adulthood for at least short periods on a regular basis. We could call them mental health days!
    Hugs, K
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  • Sher43009
    Sher43009 CSN Member Posts: 602 Member
    #17
    KayNYC said:

    If we could for only a day...
    I think we could benefit from a resignation from adulthood for at least short periods on a regular basis. We could call them mental health days!
    Hugs, K

    This poem is me.
    Boy, do I want to be 8 again! Another quote "Calgon take me away"!
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  • Noel
    Noel CSN Member Posts: 3,095 Member
    #18
    beetle25 said:

    Count me in I want to resign
    Count me in I want to resign from adulthood also. What a great poem

    This is great! Thanks for
    This is great! Thanks for sharing it with us!
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