peter pan

I am finding that the older I get (please don't give me a hard time, I have always felt older than I actually am), the more I want to get back to feeling youthful. I am careful with this subject because I think aging is a beautiful thing. Don't get me wrong having everything perky and line-free is appealing, but there's just something to be said about growing into your own skin. However, with that being said, I think it's important to remember our youth. What things make you who you are...making you unique and not assimilating into the "mature" people we may have idolized when we desperately wanted to prematurely escape our childhood.

Try this:
hopscotch
neon nail polish
dancing in the living room
red shoes
roller skate
hide-and-seek
build a fort with pillows & blankets
tell a knock-knock joke
red rover
color a picture
blow bubbles
catch lightning bugs
chocolate milk
skip
make smores (and tell ghost stories)
frisbee
wear what you want

or make your own list.

I think it's so important to find that sense of individuality, that uniqueness making you the special person that you are. It doesn't matter if you think your teeth are straight, your hair shines with gray strands, or you have glowing skin...none of that matters when you let your beauty within shine for all others to see. So, Peter Pan may have been some fictional figment of our childhood imagination, but we would all do ourselves some good to think happy thoughts, sprinkle some magical fairy dust and take off and fly~because we really don't need to grow up.