growing up....

“In some ways we grow up…we have families… we make friends, we get married, divorced… but for the most part we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling… forever wondering, forever… young.. forever stupid”

However much old you get, no one of us can kill the child inside us who doesn’t want to grow up… Along lines we build patience, we manage to smile and talk to the person we cant stand but the child in us makes sure that we stuck our toungue out behind his back… Someone said “It's easy to be nice to people you like.... But to be nice to people you hate... That's a SKILL!!!!”

“I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...”

When we were small there were days that an ice cream would fix a mood, a chocolate would make a crying face smile…. Believe me it still works ;) Remember those days when nestum was the only breakfast mom can feed us before we ran to school? If someone asks what is the favourite breakfast we blurt out without thinking twice… because still like small days we make up a face and push the plate away if we are given to eat something we don’t like…

Growing up means responsibilities… it also means reducing all ways and means to screw up… Growing up is letting go.., making decisions and not looking back… People make mistakes, they learn then they move on… Some things never change… Just because we grew up we wont be willing to forgive and forget some things that created a scar down the line… when we were kids people call us stubborn simply because we don’t like to eat something or because we cry till we get something which we want soo badly… which is not the case few years later… it takes time to make decisions, we change decisions and end up making wrong ones… yet knowing that we refuse to change…

Sometimes people face different ups and downs as kids... bundle sorrows and scars as kids… sometimes we cover ourselves with secrets and unknown likes, dislikes and desires… along the line at some day it pops out at an unexpected moment… sometimes it doesn’t… sometimes you have to meet someone who can unwrap the parceled YOU to the core… sometimes we have to present ourselves to the right ones who can unwrap the layers and unravel to see the real person inside… the real person if unraveled might be the kid who was few years ago.. ;)

“Growing up is never easy... You hold on to things that were… You wonder what's to come... and look ahead to what would be… Other days… New days… Days to come… The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other, hate life for getting older... We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.”