Poem: My Resignation Essay, Research Paper

MY RESIGNATION

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I am hereby officially tendering my

resignation as an adult. I have

decided I would like to accept the

responsibilities of an 8 year-old

again. I want to go to McDonald’s

and think that it’s a four star

restaurant.

I want to sail sticks across a fresh

mud puddle and make a sidewalk

with rocks. I want to think M&Ms

are better than money because you

can eat them. I want to lie under a big

oak tree and run a lemonade stand

with my friends on a hot

summer’s day. I want to return to a

time when life was simple; 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.

All you knew was to be happy

because you were blissfully unaware

of all the things that should make you

worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair.

That everyone is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is

possible. I want to be oblivious

to the complexities of life and be

overly excited by the little things

again. I want to live simple again.

I don’t want my day to conisist of

computer crashes,

mountains of paperwork,

depressing news, 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 card bills

and my 401K 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.”