When Growing Up Became Reality

"Lollipops turn into cigarettes. Innocent one turn into sluts. Soda becomes vodka. Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant wearing a helmet? Dad's shoulders were the highest place on earth and mom was your hero. Wearing a skirt didn't make you a slut. The most pain you felt was when you skinned your knees; goodbyes only meant until tomorrow? And we couldn't wait to grow up...."

My sister had this as her status a couple weeks back and considering the week/month that I have had...let's just say that it is very fitting.

When I first read this, I just thought to myself how true this actually is. When we are little we never think of the other life that is waiting for us when we "grow up". You never think of cigarettes, vodka or even pain. When your little none of that matters. Your mind is so incredibly innocent. What happened to our minds? What happened to our hearts? What happened to us?

What happened is that we all fell for the world and what the world deems necessary. Now to be a grown up, you have to drink, you have to have sex, you have to do everything a "grown up" does, but since when did that become the norm....Our way of thinking and our way of acting is so incredibly distorted. Sometimes I just wish we were all little and everything we know now, was non exsistent. We wouldn't know what anything was. Sometimes I do believe, being naive is sometimes an advantage. Would I have the same life lessons now? Probably not, but to have a child-like mind, I would give anything for that.

To see the world through a childs eyes, now wouldn't that be something. Take everything you know and forget about it. Be a child again. Be amazed like a child.

Don't be a kid, but have a child-like mind because when you become a "grown up", you will still see things through a childs eyes.

Pain is obnoxious. Alcohol can be very dumb. Drugs are always a stupid choice. And these are the things we decide to have our lives focused around.

Learn to be child, because when it's gone, you will lose....everything.

Don't lose everything.