No, I did not just watch the movie. I was just thinking about how I am kind of nervous for growing up. Life is pretty great as a teenager. The only real struggles that I have would be that my parents don't let me go and hangout with my friends, and there is some monsterous assignments assigned in school. There is a long list of advantages for why you would WANT to grow up; but instead of focusing on that, I want to focus on why you wouldn't want to grow up.
The first and most prominant reason is that a job is required. Which would mean stress, and long days...every day. Not that school doesn't do that already. But, a job will probably be more important to do good at. All the bills and taxes and payments that they have to make are headache worthy. Not only are my nessesities taken care of by my parents, but also the things that I want. They pay for recreation, parties for me, new stuff... etc. And even if I do have to do a few chores to earn some money, it is never an unreasonable or even difficult amout. Yesterday, I wanted to go to Get Air, and I didn't have any money. My friends Mom (not even my Mom) had me vacuum their house and I got 10 dollars. If the job that I get pays that good, I am absolutely fine doing that! Vacuuming is so easy! But even I know that the jobs that pay the best aren't that easy. The jobs that I want aren't that easy.
Kids. Now, I am not saying that I don't want/like kids. But they take up so much of your time. When people grow up and have children, it's like they go through a total change. They know longer spend their time sitting around eating and watching TV (although there are plenty of grown ups who do that, but look how far they have gotten in life...Not very). Once kids are in the picture, that is your life. You can't run away from that, unless you want to be a total horrible person that everybody hates and you will go to jail for neglegence. But, I might actually eb excited for parenthood. I love babies so much.
When you are grown up, you aren't aloud to eat all the food out of the cupboard anymore a stay a healthy, skinny size. If you can find the time to work out when you are grown up, you have to do a lot of it. And if you can't, you deal with being fat. That is a big reason I do not want to grow up. I will have to keep track of my diet. And since I probably wont be in soccer anymore, due to children, I will have to work out on my own; and that is totallly boring.
Old people can't help it. When you get older, you get ugly. You get wrinkles, and droopy eyes, and squeaky limbs, and discolored skin from all the fun you had when you were young, being tanned from the sun. Not to mention the hair thinning and loss, and teeth falling out. When I was in California, there was a museum that we went to, and it had a booth that would take your picture and "age" you. Let't just say EWW.
In conclusion, Peter Pan doesn't have such a bad idea of staying young forever. I have the life!!!
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