For A Slight Change Of Pace

I will rarely post these things on here, but this one just seems so appropriate and timely, that I just had to...someone please let me know where I should address this letter... :-D

To Whom It May Concern,

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 play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple.
When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes.
But that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset.
I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took your jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball?

I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by the little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment.

I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and prettiest seashells I could find. I would spend my afternoon climbing trees and riding my bike. I want to live simply again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, or 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, and a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, the advancement of making angels in the snow. So...here is my checkbook, my car-keys and my credit cards.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."