I always loved Peter Pan. The idea of a magical place where you could use your imagination to make things happen and you never had to grow up always appealed to me. Life is always so much easier when you're young and all you have to worry about is school and playing.
When you start middle school and especially high school everything changes. We start growing up and taking on more responsibilities and with that more worries and stress. When things in my life aren't going as good as I want then to be I long for the freedom of my childhood. But then I start to think that I want to have my cake and eat it too. I want to have the freedom of responsibility of a child but still be able to do everything a grown up can do and I'm not sure that's possible.
I know people always talk about staying young at heart and I think that's what I want to be, young at heart. I want to always enjoy the things that children enjoy and never let life jade me too much. But I don't want to get stuck, and never be able to grow up.
I don't want to be one of those people that don't want to get older and try to be young and hold on to their youth. I don't mean by getting botox or anything but I mean people who can't be mature or work to take care of their families.
I always did love that Sinatra song, "Young at Heart" and I hope to live a long time....but there's always a chance that I'll get a knock on my window and Peter Pan will take my hand, telling me to think happy thoughts and say " The third start to the right, and straight on 'til morning."
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