Ooo...

To be young...

Carefree...

You know...

Those wonderful daze before the big problems of life started as a teenager... (LOL)

When there was absolutely nothing to worry about...

Except for getting in trouble of course...

When Christmas was magical and birthdays meant more than just getting old...

And what a rush I was in to grow up...

So I could do whatever I chose!!!

So we could stay up all night and not have to eat my veggies!!!

So nobody would be able to tell me what to do!!!

Carefree...

Defiant little cuss I was...

Not knowing that those big problems of my teenage years were just waiting for me to get there...

Not knowing that bigger problems of my young adult years were just waiting for me to get there...

Not knowing that those were the carefree daze and there would be so few of them...

So now...

I am all grown up and I never get to do whatever I choose...

I am all grown up and can barely sleep at all which I hate and I eat tons of veggies which I now love...

I am all grown up and I'll be damned if everybody isn't always trying to tell me what to do...

If only I had known then the things that I have found out about the carefree life as a grownup...

Maybe I would have enjoyed the truly carefree daze a little more...

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