I want to be
six again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think
it's the best place in the world to eat.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud
puddle
and make waves with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than
money
because you can eat them.
I want to play kickball during recess
and stay up on Christmas Eve
waiting to hear Santa and Rudolph on the
roof.
I long for the days when life was simple.
When all you knew were your colors,
the addition tables, and simple nursery
rhymes,
but it didn't bother you because
you didn't know what you didn't know,
and you didn't care.
I want to go to school and have snack
time,
recess, gym, and field trips.
I want to be happy
because I don't know what should make me
upset.
I want to think the world is fair,
and everyone in it is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is
possible.
Sometime, while I was maturing,
I learned too much.
I learned of nuclear weapons,
starving and abused kids, and unhappy
marriages.
I want to be six again.
I want to think that everyone, including
myself,
will live forever because
I don't know the concept of death.
I want to be oblivious to the complexity
of life,
and be overly excited by the little
things again.
I want television to be something I watch
for fun,
not something I use for escape from the
things I should be doing.
I want to live knowing
the little things I find exciting,
will always make me as happy as when I
first learned them.
I want to be six again.
I remember not seeing the world as a
whole,
but rather being aware of only
the things that directly concerned me.
I want to be naive enough to think that
if
I'm happy, so is everyone else.
I want to walk down the beach and think
only of the sand beneath my feet,
and the possibility of finding
that blue piece of sea glass I'm looking
for.
I want to spend my afternoons
climbing trees and riding my bike,
letting the grownups worry about time,
the dentist, and how to find the money to
fix the car.
I want to wonder what I'll do when I grow
up,
not worry what I'll do if this doesn't
work out.
I want that time back.
I want to use it now as an escape,
so that when my computer crashes,
or I have a mountain of paperwork,
or two depressed friends,
or second thoughts about so many things,
I can travel back and build snowmen
without thinking about anything
except whether the snow sticks together
and what I can possibly use for the
snowman's mouth.
I want to be six again.
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