After accomplishing 99% of the coursework to receive a Bachelor of Science degree I would like to give you a little advice.
Trust the way you feel.
Trust the way your emotions run high and low like a river during summer.
Trust the way you want to follow them, but resist the urge because it’s just not normal.
Trust the way you swing from good to bad and back again within a conversation.
Trust that.
Because that’s how we know we’re alive.
That’s how we know we’re young.
That’s how we know we’ve got time to grow up because we act so impulsively.
Over the years we’ve heard the generations before us mourn for the way we lead our lives.
Why do you think that is?
It’s because we’re impulsive!
Because we jump in feet first with our SHOES ON!
It’s when you lose that
When you lose that sense of adventure,
When you lose the smell of wild mustangs on your breath,
When you lose putting off today what is due tomorrow
That you become middle aged, when you become adult.
Some may characterize being an adult as having bills to pay,
Or doing the things you don’t want to do just because you know you should
Or wearing a skirt most days,
But it’s not any of those things.
Being an “adult” is in losing your vigor for life.
In losing the ability to jump down the stairs one at a time because you’re superman.
In losing the imagination to see yourself as a wildly successful painter
In losing the will to draw on the walls every once in awhile.
We do not lose our youth by becoming a year older,
But rather becoming a tiny bit more realistic in our view points.
So come on,
Lets go stare at the trees and imagine what they’d say.
Lets go jump in puddles just to feel the spray.
Lets go steal cookies from the cookie jar
Lets go see what the world has to offer.
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