Okay, so I had a pretty eventful week this week, but I'm not gonna bore you with that yet. :p Instead I'm gonna bore you with a few random thoughts I came up with while high on sugar at about 2:00 in the morning on my way to JFK airport. XD And yes, this is a two-parter, as one of the sets of thoughts is very, very long. I'm starting with the short one. :)
Part II can be found here.
I'm a bit jealous of kids sometimes. In a way, kids have far more freedom than we do. Remember when you were really little, and you used a cardboard box as a house, or maybe even a TV? Remember tying a blanket around your shoulders and pretending to be a superhero or a vampire? Remember using the bed for a trampoline, just because it was fun?
I'll be perfectly honest with you: I still enjoy doing these things. I still enjoy jumping on the bed... sometimes I rock out on it while listening to music and I roll around and kick the pillows. When I was 15-16, I bought a plastic magical girl wand (if you don't know what those are, they're like superheroes... think Sailor Moon or Mew Mew Power) and I used to play with that thing all the time. I still would be if I hadn't broken it.
Why am I not allowed to enjoy this anymore? I know if anyone caught me doing something like that, they'd laugh at me and call me a freak. My mom would berate me about being "immature." Why? Because I enjoy having fun?Is our society that blind to the concept of enjoyment and pleasure?
I remember on Halloween, I was looking for a raygun for my Killjoy outfit. I had found a cap gun that looked perfect, and I was going to buy it, and maybe some paint to make it purple. She refused to let me buy it, no matter how much I wanted it, because she was afraid of what my "peers" would think.
Tell me, why should I have had to go through so much trouble for a Halloween costume? Why should I have missed the opprtunity to dress up just because of what some idiots would think? The funny thing is, if I had decided to dress as a slutty vampire or something like that, Mom would have let that one slide without a fight. Is sex the only pleasure we're allowed to have as adults? Does our society hate creativity and individuality so much that they would stifle it and call that "maturity?"
To be honest with you, I think kids understand the world far better than we do. I think that they're far more mature than any of us. They understand what it truly means to be happy, while adults spend their lives chasing superficial things like boy/girfriends and more money.
I shall end my essay with this: if you've ever been told that you need to "grow up" or that you're "acting like a child..." I salute you. You're still wise. Far wiser than my mom, or your teachers, or anybody who tells you that you're "immature" or "not good enough." Never give that spirit up. That will be your strength.
Part II coming very soon. ;)
