How Young Can You Get?

I've been reading a lot of other people's personal blogs and visiting different kinds of forums, and what I couldn't help notice were these teenagers and their endless rants about how their life sucks and how much in a hurry they are to grow up. I've watched this movie called 17 Again and the main character, who was played by Zac Efron, said that when you're young everything feels like the end of the world, which I have to agree. I have ranted about how my life sucks a few years back, but the difference between those kids and me is that I never wished to grow up.

When you have been brought to a good life, it feels like you have so much problems when in reality you're the one who's really lucky. On the other side of that, those people brought up to witness horrible things only wishes for the reality to stop. When my life came crashing down, I only wanted to remain in my old perfect world. Things were normal then--there was no pain to feel but bits of cuts and bruises that goes away after a few hours.

What teenagers don't realize is that their life isn't as bad as they think, and if I had the chance to remain a kid forever I'd take it. It wasn't my choice to grow up early, life had decided that for me. Kids are lucky when they have someone to run to when they needed comforting, I didn't have that. It was the other way around.

It was a good thing that I've learned to become optimistic, nothing good will ever come if we dwell too much with our bad memories. That's why I try my best not to worry about things, it makes you feel old. I want to be as young as I can get, but not totally mental of course. Having fun isn't really such a bad thing even if you're world is falling apart. It helps heal the most painful wounds, all we have to do is let the pain go.