Being Grown Up Isn't Half as Fun as Growing Up

True, or no?

Personally, it is often said by older people that when you're a kid, you don't know how good you have it, and maybe that is true. But, isn't it one of the horrible things about being a kid that you don't have any perspective and you think that every new days' events are all-important?

I can see in my own life a shift from those daily events to worldly events. It's the same page, just a different book and in reality, none of it really matters all that much. Sure, we fight for our civil rights because we care about our own rights to live our lives in peace without being harassed by representatives of the government, but really, how many of us take advantage of those rights that we are afforded?

We go through life, working ourselves into the grave and watching the days go by as though they don't mean anything. Then at the end of that day we look back at what we have accomplished and realize that none of it really means anything. On top of that, we look at the world around us and realize that everything is gradually breaking down. This takes me back to my original idea.

Of course we long for the days when we were kids for 2 reasons. One, we have no idea what is going on from a macro-standpoint. The things that we are consumed with revolve primarily around us and our personal relationships. Two, by acknowledging that everything is breaking down, then we must extrapolate that things actually WERE better back then.

Happiness, like Denis Leary said, is just a moment. Enjoy the ones that you have and hope that at the end of the day that you have more good ones than bad ones. Try to live your life in a way that pleases you and doesn't infringe on the pleasure of others (unless you're delivering said pleasure).

So here is my purge of frustration so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

1) Bush (and company) is a dick and a criminal. He deserves to be brought up on charges and convicted of treason among other things.

2) We are headed for hard times, so buy a helmet.

3) The cohort of individuals that are coming up behind me are dumber, more superficial and more oblivious than the ones that were in my cohort. I assume that this is part of the breaking down of all things.

4) You have to fill your life with interesting things, or it will be uninteresting. No one is going to do this for you.

5) Don't be nostalgic about the old days, because they weren't as great as you remember them to be. Enjoy every second that you have for what it is. Every second that goes by is another chance to turn things around.