Author: Chris Taylor
Date: 01:09:35 09/08/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 19:13:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: >To Whom it May Concern: >I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I >would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year old again. > >I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to >play chess all weekend and have my father worried about the Hotel and entry fee. >I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to >play dodge ball at recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under >a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I >want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, >multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because >you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be >happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you >worried or upset. > >I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to >believe to believe that Kramnik simply wants to show the world how good he >really is, instead of asking for Deep Fritz in advance and make some easy money >by memorizing some games.. Somewhere in our youth, we matured and learned too >much. There are nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, and abused children. Lies, >unhappy marriages, illness, pain, and death. A world where companies poison our >water and our soil, and children kill. > >What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live forever, >because we didn't grasp the concept of death? When the worst thing in the world >was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball. I >want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the >little things again. > >I want to return to the days when children played hide-n-seek outside instead of >being glued to a television, when games were as harmless as Chess instead of >spine-ripping, blood-splattering mind numbers like Mortal Combat, and TV still >had some shows on that weren't about sex, killing, and lies. I remember being >naive and thinking everyone was happy because I was. Afternoons were spent >climbing trees and fences and riding my bike. I never worried about time, bills, >or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I >was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this >doesn't work out. > >I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of Windows ME >crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in >the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and >loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, >truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in >the snow. So....here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my >401K statements. > >I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this >further, you'll have to catch me first, cause, "Tag! You're it." > > >Pichard. This was like a breath of fresh air! Once in a while dont we need to remember how much fun it was to be a little kid? Chris
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