Staying Young

I have realized that I love innocence. It is funny how as we grow up, we always want to seem older than we are. We always want to be able to watch the rated R movie at a young age, or be tall enough to go on the roller coaster, old enough to buy a lottery ticket, or buy alcohol. It is funny to me how when we are young, we don’t realize how good we really have it. As I grow older, I miss my youth.

Everyday I work with children, teaching them music and theater and it is amazing to see them first hand discovering the world. I can’t help but laugh at things they say and I wonder how many people I made laugh with random comments as a child. I said to the class “How are you?” and one boy replied, “I’m great!” yet all of his friends thought he said, “I’m eight”, so they began telling me their ages…”I’m three, I’m four.”

After I am done teaching, I nanny for two young boys. I have been watching them for a year now and it is amazing to see them growing up so fast. One is in middle school now and things are quickly becoming uncool for him that he liked just a month ago.

Life is pretty amazing that way. It is amazing how fast we grow, how much we do, how the little things that bothered us don’t really matter after a while and how we realize what is important.

College seems so far away to me now. I feel like I am growing up so fast, but do not want to lose the child inside me. My jobs are keeping me youthful and I hope that I keep the kid inside me for the rest of my life.