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Thought for the day - March 18, 2000
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Subject: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 18 Mar 00 - 12:24 AM RESIGNATION AS AN ADULT... 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 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 consist 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."
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Mbo Date: 18 Mar 00 - 12:41 AM But kat, I CAN'T! I'm still a kid! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Little Neophyte Date: 18 Mar 00 - 01:24 AM If someone were to resign from something, would they not change all their 'I want to.......' statements to just 'I .......' Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 18 Mar 00 - 01:33 AM I didn't write it...just received it& like the idea...not meant for indepth analysation, though, I don't think.But, for the record, LilNeo I think you are right and Mbo, it's okay, not to worry. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: canoer Date: 18 Mar 00 - 02:00 AM I want to be an adult, with my resources and knowledge and extensive adult abilities -- AND keep the fresh and childlike approach to the world and its gifts, every day. Of course, I spend time trying to figure out how to have my chocolate cake and eat it, too. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 18 Mar 00 - 03:00 AM kat. May I come and play too? Aye. dave |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Midchuck Date: 18 Mar 00 - 04:43 PM I think this is the second time I have posted to a thread, "What Canoer said!" Have to meet Canoer sometime. Only difference is, I ain't sure my adult abilities are all that extensive. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: TheMuse Date: 18 Mar 00 - 05:41 PM kat, Sounds like your having the same kinda day (year?) I am. So, I'm with you, although, I'd settle for being 18 again. A little bit of age, able to take care of myself, but no responsibility to anyone else. TheMuse |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 18 Mar 00 - 06:19 PM It was pretty hard at times being a kid.
Homework. Being late for school. Bullies in the playground. Bullies in the corridors. Sarcastic teachers. Parents getting angry. Not being allowed to do things you wanted to do. Compulsory games. School dinners. Dinner ladies.
It's a great feeling to wake up in tye morning and think "I'll never have to do another exam!" |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 18 Mar 00 - 08:31 PM I hope I haven't killed off the Thought with that gloomy post of mine. It was meant to be encouraging - like when you go on holiday, and everything goes wrong, it's great to be home. If you had a wonderful time, it's a bit of a drag coming home. And home's where you live the rest of the year.
So if you can persuade yourself it's great not being a child anymore, you're on a winner. Think Camp Granada, and a lot of your present troubles could fade into blessed insignificance. That film Angela's Ashes I found quite cheering really... |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Mbo Date: 18 Mar 00 - 09:12 PM Hmmm...I never did get to have a lemonade stand when I was little. I moved around TOO much! Maybe me and Davey (the youngest mariner) and katie/katiegiggling could make one together? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Little Neophyte Date: 18 Mar 00 - 10:25 PM I just came back from taking my girlfriend's kids to see My Dog Skip and at the end of the movie there was one line that reminded me of Kat's Thread today...... 'Why is it that when we are younger all we want is to get older yet when we are older, we want the opposite?' Canoe says it very well. If I had not gotten older I would have never become wiser but at the same time I still feel like a kid in my heart. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Little Neophyte Date: 18 Mar 00 - 10:28 PM I just came back from taking my girlfriend's kids to see My Dog Skip and at the end of the movie there was one line that reminded me of Kat's Thread today...... 'Why is it that when we are younger all we want is to get older yet when we are older, we want the opposite?' Canoe says it very well. If I had not gotten older I would have never become wiser but at the same time I still feel like a kid in my heart. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 18 Mar 00 - 11:19 PM Ah, geez, you guys. Thanks! I really think that is one thing I never lost touch with...being a kid. I just liked the way it was put in the above posting and thought I'd pass it along. 'Twas not meant as a self-description, although there are days....my momma told there'd be days like this! You all are great..thanks! kat |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Mbo Date: 18 Mar 00 - 11:26 PM I don't know Bonnie....sometimes I think I'm growing up TOO fast... --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Little Neophyte Date: 18 Mar 00 - 11:58 PM Mbo, maybe that is not such a bad thing because the faster you grow up, the more years you will have to figure out how to get back to feeling like a kid again. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Biskit Date: 19 Mar 00 - 02:12 PM mama said there'd be days like this....but she never said they would run concurrent, I could use a time machine to take me back to that simpiler time of county fairs,little league, and that akward kiss from the little girl down the lane but just for a visit. I'd hate to have to do all that growing up all over again May be we could talk to Mbo about that time machine thing I mean he built that wild bass guitar so at least we know he has some mechanical abilaty and an imagination. Howzaboutit,Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: tar_heel Date: 19 Mar 00 - 02:28 PM gee kat,when i grow up ,i want to be just like you!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: thosp Date: 19 Mar 00 - 02:42 PM and the seasons they go round and round and the painted ponies go up and down peace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Mbo Date: 19 Mar 00 - 06:18 PM I'll work on it, Biskit. Right now they want me to build a machine that does something absolutely useless. But I will get to the time machine, so we can go back and relive your first kiss--then we can go many years into our future so I can see who my first kiss will be with! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: rpm Date: 20 Mar 00 - 06:19 PM Kudos to all who took time to respond, I'm with the 18 yr old wannabes but the opening of our yearbook paraphrased... "To everything there is a season..." peace, rpm |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 20 Mar 00 - 06:23 PM "I was so much older then - I'm younger than that now." |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Metchosin Date: 20 Mar 00 - 06:41 PM Don't start singing songs Mcgrath, it just sets me off onto others. *BG*
"Pain, more pain Was that Eric Burdon and the Animals? geez, I can't remember. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 21 Mar 00 - 02:58 PM I really am becoming a child again. I'm going bald - the way I was when I came into the world - I'm having difficulty standing up straight, sometimes my food runs onto my chin, and when I read one of Catspaw's postings the other day, I laughed so much that I did a very childish thing in my underpants. All the best. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 21 Mar 00 - 04:14 PM That's the spirit, Seamus!! LOL!! |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 22 Mar 00 - 02:19 PM It was Bob Dylan, in My Back Pages.
In a soldiers stance I aimed my hand
And so forth. Good stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 22 Mar 00 - 02:23 PM 'xactly! |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 00 - 02:28 PM Right arm and farm out, McGrath. There's an essay somewhere that says, "If I could be who I was then, but knowing what I know now" is an oxymoron -- knowing what you know is who you are, really. From that perspective I wouldlike to simply rearrange the lessons I have learned to subtract those that were embittering, jading, and that added the false perceptions of pain and loss into the equation. Then, i'd be as young as i cared to know I was at any given moment. Physical clocks and body lifecycles are a little more intractable, but screw it, you can always go get another...:>) |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Little Neophyte Date: 22 Mar 00 - 02:32 PM Thanks McGrath and Bob, That will be my new motto.......... Next time someone asks me about my life and I tell them all the stupid things I have done, I will say........ Ya but, I was so much older then, I am younger than that now. Little do they know, now that I am younger, I do really stupid things. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 22 Mar 00 - 04:08 PM The actress, Ruth Gordon (portrayed a lot of old woman curmudgeonly types), once asked someone, "How old would you be, if you didn't know how old you were?" I love it and try to live by that way of thinking. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 00 - 04:12 PM I think that was in that charming movie about the neurotic kid who drove a hearse and kept pretending to kill himself. NotHarry and Sally -- someone and someone... Sorry, senior moment. But the point is well taken. I thought of myself as 18 until I was forty -- then I told myself to grow up. Maybe that was a mistake :>).... |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: katlaughing Date: 22 Mar 00 - 05:38 PM Harold and Maud!? Right? I don't remember it in there, but it would figure. One of my favs! I read it in some list of quotes about age. |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: Elektra Date: 22 Mar 00 - 09:54 PM That was very cute, Kat! Thanks for sharing.
This is the part where I analyse anyway. ;-) Personally, I don't actually buy into the whole scam that makes it funny. I mean, I think the very people who TRULY feel that way are often the ones least likely to achieve much of it. Who SAYS being an adult (or even working) by definition has to be stressful and complicated all the time?
My theory on being a "grown-up" is simple. It definitely is NOT about being uptight or "proper" or always being in control or slaving away at a job you hate.
It's all about TIMING and EXERCISING GOOD JUDGEMENT.
At 29 and holding (permanently), on rainy days I'll still run thru a parking lot, shoes in hand (stuffed under my shirt), pants rolled up and me jumping in puddles all the way to my car -- generally if I've nowhere special to be, I'm not on my way to a meeting and it's not the middle of a hurricane. Of course, as soon as I get home, I *do* doff the wet clothes, take a nice, warm shower and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. [big grin] *I* can't get in trouble for it anymore!! Why *shouldn't* being a "grownup" be fun, too?
Most of the things Kat mentioned I still *do* believe in. Best of all, though, I don't need "permission to borrow the car", my friends can spend the night whenever they want, AND not only do I NOT get in "trouble" for having parties (with booze, even!), but we don't have to clean up 'til after a good night's sleep!
(Actually, I rarely have parties and they're always very small, but it's the IDEA that counts. Here's a typical scene: I had four friends over for New Year's Eve a couple of years ago. We spent a good portion of the evening in a room complete with blacklight, posters, pit group couches and lava lamp, listening to Firesign Theatre at like, 3am and laughing our butts off...it was a BLAST! And all of us were completely stone cold sober.)
On the other hand, I do NOT go to meet my son's teacher wearing flip-flops, my "daisy dukes" and my old Metallica "Metal up your *ss" t-shirt -- I make sure I am well-groomed and tastefully attired. I do not listen to "The Lords of Acid" (graphically raunchy techno band) while my son is at home. There is plenty of other meaningful, enjoyable and more appropriate material in my CD collection for those times. I may skip meals and keep erratic hours, but my son's are like clockwork.
Basically, there are times to fart around and there are times to be cool -- knowing the difference AND ACTING UPON IT -- that's what *I* call growing up. And it's mostly FUN!!! I suppose for that very reason, most so-called "grown-ups" couldn't agree _less_ with me, hehe... I'll keep the keys and the checkbook anytime -- thanks very much! ;-) *elektra* |
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Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 18, 2000 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Mar 00 - 09:25 PM Harold and Maud - and he turned out all right in the end, and took up playing the banjo.
He's probably somewhere in the Mudcat right now... |
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