Author: Jorge
Date: 11:20:50 09/08/01
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On September 08, 2001 at 04:39:59, Chessfun wrote: >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. > >Last week my dog got sick, with kidney failure. Tonight..last night..she was put >to sleep. > >Today is the saddest day of my life, my friend who always loved me >unconditionally, no matter what. My friend who always was happy to see me, who >always wanted to be with me. Now she is gone. > >This made me think about happier, easier times, times when I thought she would >live forever. Tears...god I loved my doggie so, so much...memories and pictures >everywhere. I have no clue what to do, where to go, I am simply stunned, I feel >like I could sleep for a year, but when I lay down I just can't. Sorry to hear this. This reminds me of when I lost Duke, my black Labrador in August of 1997, he was a HUGE of part my world, and I still miss him so much...
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