Something to think about

I HEREBY RESIGN AS AN ACTING ADULT!

I am hereby telling you of my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6-year old again.

I want to go to Steak & Shake and think that it's a four-star restaurant. I want to skip rocks across my favorite creek in Indiana and watch them make ripples in the water.

I want to think a Hershey bar is better than money because you can eat it. I want to lie under my favorite big oak tree.

I want to run a lemonade stand with my firends on a hot summer day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple - a time 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 that you didn't know things. All you cared about was being happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.

I want to believe that the world is fair, that everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be unaware of the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.

I want things to be simple. I don't want my day to consist of broken appliances, mountains of bills to pay, depressing news, worrying about 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 checkbook and my car keys, my credit cards, my bank statements. 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!!

Bettly Lingenfelter
Hernando, FL