The end of the school year is indeed bitter sweet, but this year will be a cake walk compared to next year. Imagine actually the year closing and we are leaving forever!! I guess at times like these we need to remember the old adage, “when one door closes another one opens.”
Yes, isn’t it interesting that we spend our entire childhood trying to grow up. We don’t want to be told what to do, we want independence our own earnings, the ability to stay up late and eat dessert before our dinner, get our driving license and not eat our greens etc etc. The list is endless. We spend our formative years wishing the years would pass quickly.
And the years pass by and we find ourselves middle aged .The years have finally caught up with us and we deny our age and dye our hair in an attempt to hold onto our youth. But, the aching knees and tell tale signs don’t allow us to forget the truth. We can never really do what we want as there are still rules to obey, and now our mum is replaced by our boss, and unfortunately we cannot wrap the boss around our little finger and the boss does not bake cookies for us. Yes we have money, but there are bills to be paid, mortgage payments to be made and responsibilities. Yes, growing up is not all it was cracked up to be, after all. We look at kids playing in the park and wish we could turn the clock back to a simple, carefree time. We wish we had paused for breath and enjoyed our childhood, as we only get one. But we cannot turn back the clock, as it keeps on ticking. And that damned clock reminds us of our own immortality. Did we not think we were invincible and would live forever?
Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it…
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