I guess when it comes down to it
Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
These are the best days of our lives
The only thing that matters is just following your heart
And eventually you'll finally get it right.- The Ataris

 

I’m just an immature little kid.
I’m a 5 year old trapped in a 14-year-old girls body.
I still drink chocolate milk with a straw and get yelled at for making bubbles.
I sing when I walk down the street.
I’m always the first one to run out to the ice cream man in the summer time.
I still pee with the door open and dance to the sound of the shower.
I run into my sister’s room when it’s time to go to bed and ask her to tell me a story.
I still believe in the tooth fairy.
My favorite holiday is Christmas & I stay up extra late to see if I can catch a glimpse of Santa.
I still hop around my neighborhood handing out Easter eggs and pretending I’m the Easter bunny.
I sleep with my blankie and barney every night.
My rubber ducky still keeps me company in the shower.
When it rains I run outside in the mud.
Electricity plugs still fascinate me.
Catching lighting bugs outside marks the start of the summer for me & my little sister.
I still run around the house with underwear on my head.
Socks and flip-flops are still a major "fashion yes"!
Skimpy shorts and tank tops don’t interest me, I’d rather be wearing my sponge-bob square pants t-shirt.
Growing up is for nerds. <3

I wish I was a little kid again when all I wanted for my birthday was cupcakes for my entire class & for everyone to sing happy birthday to me.. and money never mattered because when I was little.. --» [ whatever i wanted i always got ]

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when I was six and my biggest
problem was what kind of dress to put on my Barbie's or whether or not I had
enough Lego's to build a fort.

Remember when you thought boys had cooties...when friends were new, dreams were un-shattered and worries few...when recess was too short and life was too long...decisions came easily without need to belong...when storks delivered the babies and passions weren't so strong...friendships were un-broken...right was right, and wrong was wrong...when bad things didn't happen...when only skinned knees brought tears and the night light in it's socket quieted all our fears...when farewell meant just for summer and real friends didn't part...the fun went on forever and never left a broken heart.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

The young faces in these pictures represent times when our biggest worries were Barbie and Ken's wedding, GI Joe's missing arm, and why we had to eat vegetables at dinner again. Looking at these pictures today, sometimes we, the seniors, wish we could go back to such carefree days. But at the same, time moving on with our lives, making new memories, and gaining independence have become exciting realities that were once ideas that seemed so far away. Since sixth grade we have counted down the days until graduation. Now as the day approaches we are still anxious, but somewhat nervous. The faces in these pictures remind us of the people we once were and still are, the friends we have grown up with and also whom we will graduate with. Surviving the past 12 years wasn't easy, but in that time we had some of the best experiences of our lives. Those times are what made it worthwhile.

Have you ever heard a song from so long ago with so many memories tied to it that it made you cry? And didn't you wish that you could go back into time when everything seemed so much simpler and carefree? Those are songs that are the soundtrack of our lives... the ones that bring back childhood memories, best friends, first love, first heartbreak... the memories.

Remember when... ollie-ollie-oxen free meant something?... gettin high meant swinging at the playground? ...the worst thing you could get from boys were cooties? ...dad was our hero and mom was the girl you were going to marry? ...your worst enemies were your siblings? race issues were who ran the fastest, and war was a card game? life was simple and care free...but what I remember most was wanting to grow up. Now ollie-ollie-oxen free is just some gibberish... getting high is a major issue... and pot isn't just a pan in the kitchen... stds and babies are huge compared to cooties...dads an asshole and mom wants to marry you off... your siblings are your best friends... be nice to them... race issues and war are common things these days, and it's not fun anymore... and sometimes I wish I were 2 again because skinned knees are easier mended than broken hearts...

"It's hard to accept, but you can't change the past. You can't go back and manipulate things to the way you wanted them to happen. Because life’s be meaningless and boring and just not worth living. But you can change the future and that's a beautiful thing about life. Yes, you will make mistakes. And yes, you will have bad days - but as long as you let the past go, you'll have such a gorgeous and bright future ahead of you. Knowing that things were meant to happen. Knowing that each day you will learn something so that you keep growing to be a better person.”

Growing up sucks. Not all kisses are magic, and most boys do not live up to your expectations, but there are those times when everything, I mean love, romance, relationships, it all falls together perfectly and it's incredible. It's those moments, no matter how depressingly few and far between, that make growing up worth it

When do you stop being a kid and start becoming an adult? Cause me, I don’t want that time to come, I wanna be young forever. I wanna be frightened of the dark; I wanna be scared of the bogey man. I’d rather be frightened of those, than fall in love and having my heart broken.

I’m not a little girl anymore
I’ve learned who to trust
& who to ignore

I dont forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I'm strong enough to know that people make mistakes.

It's hard to grow up in a society where you will never be the pretty girl. Everyone seems to have everything you don't. And dreams are always one cloud away from where you are.

 

You spend twelve years of your life trying to learn how to live, but every time you to try to live in those twelve years you're told you're wrong. Then everyone you've grown to love is taken away and scattered. That's what they should teach you. How to say good-bye and let go.

 

When I was little I had this idea that life could be perfect. That if you were careful enough, you'd never make a mistake, never be lonely, never be misunderstood, never be frightened, but it doesn't work that way. Life is big and messy, and you just have to climb in it with your boots on and hope for the best."

Half of life is messing up; the other half is dealing with it.

The tragedy of life isn’t that it ends too soon it’s that we wait to long to begin it

 

Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.

 

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life

 

Okay, I've had it with real life, give me my fairy godmother, my prince, and my happily ever after endings.

 

Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.

"Maybe if everyone had a little bird on their shoulder and every morning woke up and said 'Is today the day I’m going to die' people would live life differently."-Tuesdays with Morrie

Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

The hardest thing about growing up is that you have to do what's right for you even if it means breaking someone's heart, including your own.

 

By living each day to its absolute fullest you not only sleep better at night but you are one step closer to your dreams

take chances. tell the truth. date someone totally wrong for you. say no. spend all your cash. fall in love. get to know someone random. be random. say i love you. sing out loud. laugh at a stupid joke. cry. get revenge. apologize. tell someone how much they mean to you. tell a jerk what you feel. let someone know what they're missing. stalk someone. blackmail. laugh til your stomach hurts. live life

There is not a shred of evidence to support the theory that life is meant to be serious

 

Life is all about ass; you're either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, or behaving like 1