So I've figured out why I seem to stress through life so much. I miss the days where I could just get up and go play basketball on the court next door. Go do random shit with my little best friend Andy. Play with the Hedgepeths from down the street, or play baseball in the street with the Hatch's from across the street. Or the Courts' house. Or making fun of Damion Marlow's grandparents who lived 10 feet away. Or check out Danielle Bryant's sexy girl next door look and wonder if I'll ever be cool enough to date her. Or go make fun of Joyce Joyce because her name is Joyce Joyce. Or put pee in squirt guns and ride around on my Huffy and squirt the stupid punkass neighbor kids. Or get stuck sleeping in the garage because I snuck out on New Years Eve. Or go to Jonathon Boyer's house to play video games all day with the most spoiled child ever. Quite simply, I don't want to grow up.
It seems that the older we all get, the more we take for granted. We trade in our friends, the people we grew up with, and the kids we experience childhood with....for wives and kids of our own. Once we have kids and get married, it seems like all the things we loved growing up just goes in the back of our brain as memories. I miss the days where I could just kick it with the boys and play basketball all day at the Park. Or the times we just got up and took random road trips or went camping or got drunk at the Ropeswing.
Honestly, if I could live those days for my entire life, I'd do it in a heartbeat. No more bills, responsibilities, jobs, stress, wives, ex-wives, babies, child support, alimony, old friendships dying because one became a completely different person, or any other bullshit. I miss having a best friend that I could pal around with all day with no worries, washing trucks so we could buy baseball cards.
I just miss the carefree world of childhood and it doesn't last forever. The "Book of Growing Up" seems to require us to move on from our childhood and move into the stressful world of adulthood. All I know is, I'd trade that book in ANY day, to have the relationships of adolescence back again. No questions asked.
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Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. The memories of growing up mold us into what we are today. And you are a wonderful person! Take your time and your body and your words and make them into instruments of love and hope.
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