Some kids wanna grow up so fast so they can have all the glamour and privileges that's the adults have. The fancy cars, all the money, designer clothes, credit cards, and to be able to come and go as they please all go along with being grown. Couldn't tell me anything! I had a job at 13 years old. Started supporting myself around the age of 14 or 15 years old. You know those fancy cars that I spoke of, well, not for me. When I got my license, at 17 years old, I got a hooptie and was excited about it. It was a 1988 Chevy, nova what a beauty! I say this because today, a co-worker of mine (the one I despise), told me about how the car that her mother bought her broke down and she was mad that she had a broke car (the one that she paid not a cent for). I worked for much of what I have at the moment. I get annoyed at the inappreciative who take everything for granted. Well that's a digression...
Now I stand, that's right I'm standing, at 21 years old. I have bills, not because I asked for them because they came my way. I have responsibility because it came my way. I am grown and I didn't want it to happen, but it came my way. Can I trade it in? I am very fearful of the future. Is the rest of my life going to be working to pay a bill? To only die at the end... Will I be living in the present that comes from the future only to be turned into the past? Only to become part of history... I'd like to know why there is such pressure on us to live. Why is the standard so high to live a well life that you have to brake and tear yourself to have a mediocre ending? Why can't I go back? Why did I have to grow up?
I guess that being grown is better than being dead, or is it? All I know is, its over rated. The bulk of years that was spent sheltered is probably the best, and is all that I would ever want. on October 23, 2005, that shelter was taken away from me. Robbed of that strongest pillar that kept me sane and together as well as the best of my very best of friends.
Growing and maturing is a slow and often costly process. I, on the other hand, had a quick course and I'm in the accelerated program as I type and you read. I never was granted the opportunity to be the child with everything, or even some things, and whatever I had wasn't given on a silver platter.
if I wanted something personal or extra, I had to do it mostly myself. It sucks to have to buy your own toys, games, special food items... and to only get something on your birthday and Christmas, which was 3 months from each other. I came out of it only to have to do it all by myself. I guess this is what these people are calling life. Well if this is life then life is real lousy!
I just wanna roll back time and freeze it. It may not be a great place to be but its a better place than the present. At the very least, my strong pillar would still be in place and my best friend would still be there for me. I'm so broken, I don't know if I will ever be fixed...
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