Now that I’m officially a grown up, living by myself in a strange city, I wish I hadn't grown up so fast. During playtime, as a child I’d often wonder what it’d be like to be grown up, well its like when they said, be careful what you wish for.
#1 – The endless wait for the brief weekend. And when a weekend finally arrives, all we have energy left for is, SLEEP.
#2 – Power Naps. We wake up startled at our cubicle and start typing into the computer again.
#3 – Solitude. We are so surrounded by people talking a blue streak all day that at the end of the day we want to be tucked away from the world.
#4 – We meet spiteful authorities. Spiteful teachers who dole out assignments on weekends and spiteful bosses who make you work off-record at home and pay us 1/10th of what we deserve.
#5 – We start believing lying is okay. Remember when were children we used to think the biggest misdeed is lying? Well, that phase is clearly over. We lie all the time once we grow up.
#6 – Ego kicks in. Like lying wasn't good enough, now there’s ego ensuring lies are well-utilized.
#7 – We grow fat. We hit the gym. Remember when we were kids, we used to play and run all the time. Could we ever be in better shape then? And now? :/
#8 –We pretend. We don’t buy a dress because we want to. We buy it because it’d make us look a class higher than the others. We hide how we really feel, just to ward off judgments. We say something and do another, and think that’s okay.
#9 – The judge in us blooms. Remember when we were kids and we’d play with the servant’s little boy? Now that we’re grown up, if we see the same boy groomed into a man, despite recognizing we’d turn the other way. Its way too below our league to be interacting with such people!
#10 – We lose our ability to imagine. It’s always going to be about practicality. We stop believing in dreams and fairy tales. We get too soaked into the vicious social life, we lose our ability to think positively.
It was so much better being a child. Nothing was deliberate, everything was innocent. To the ID in us, for being the only child-like instinct left in our systems!
