Responsibility

Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was like if you'd get a bike for your birthday, or if you'd get to eat cookies for breakfast? Now that I am officially an adult, I'm beginning to think its totally overrated. Don't be fooled by all the hot shoes, the great parties, and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. Its the responsibility that comes with all that privilege I'm worried about. I mean adults have to be places, and earn a living, and pay the rent. See? Its kind of making bikes and cookies look really really good isn't it? And you know what the scariest part of responsibility is? When you screw up, and let it slip right through your fingers. Unfortunately however, once we get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn't go away. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. Responsibility can't be avoided, either someone makes us face it, or we suffer the consequences. . And still, I mean adulthood has its perks, your own place, your own privacy, and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do, well, that's pretty damn good.

Also in the unfortunate category, is the inevitability that in life only one thing is certain...apart from death and taxes...no matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes. You're going to hurt people, you're going to get hurt, and if you ever want to recover, there is only one thing you can say. Forgive and forget, that's what they say, it's good advice, but its not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness, old scores are never settled...old wounds never heal. And the most we can hope for is that one day we'll be lucky enough to forget.