#4

Hair grows out and nails grow long and people change.

We grow up and it is seen as this exceptionally horrific happening. This event that has been foretold my Peter Pan and Captain Hook and it scares us when we are in our beds alone. Alone with the thoughts that carry us like infants away from our sweat drenched summers and our wonderings about sex and marriage.

Our wonderings about life and how we should live. About what kids names we like for our infinitely distant children and how when we are parents that things will be different. That we won't hit and we won't yell and how there will be no way that our kids could ever dislike us. Because you know...we're hip.

But the reality sits in the back of our jello ridden minds and It tells us that they will dislike us because, well, that is just how life goes. And that things will, in some way, resemble how our home lives were. They will mirror how our parents packed our lunches and how they made sure that we were tended too in such a manner that we would, undoubtedly, become productive members of this society.

Growing up takes us away from the freedoms of certain things; true. But it also brings us closer and closer to the truth of who we are and who we were tilled to become.

Yes, midnight beach runs and noon day naps may begin to lack in frequency. But other things that fulfill gapped hearts will introduce themselves. And when they do, let's greet them with a genuine handshake.