I woke up this morning and put the television on in our living room.  The channel was set to the morning news. My son came in the living room sat down on the floor and was happily playing with his new toy car set. As the news was talking about the economic downturn, the terrorist invasion of Mumbai, India, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, a lame-duck president and grim outlook of this year’s holiday season, I couldn’t help notice the pure counterpoint between my son’s enjoyment of his toys against the backdrop of televised doom and gloom. Life was so simple as a child.  I miss it fondly. So, in my usual style, I thought it would be interesting to blog the fact that I would love to resign 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 skip rocks across a lake and count the skips.
• I want to think that M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
• I want to 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 was 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 and 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 consist of meetings, computer problems, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, gossip, my health, gossip, illness, and the loss of loved ones.
• I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, togetherness, and play.