*Lights raise and the setting is a coffee shop of college students.* Student 1 looks off into the distance and sighs, "Remember the good ol' days when we were just stupid kids running around, no worries?" Student 2 follows her gaze, sighing as well, "Yes those were the days." *Scene fades out and nostalgic music plays as every adult in the theatre wipes their eyes except me who is sitting in the back banging my head against the seat in front of me, blood trickles down, an ambulance is called.*

Nostalgia kills.

Every kid wants to be an adult. Every adult wants to be a kid. What's wrong with this? No one is happy where they are! Let me tell you something, honestly between you and I, and this computer screen, the good ol' days do not exist. We wish they did so we have something to cling to, something to hold onto. But they just don't. And before you shake your laptop screen and yell, "BEING A KID IS THE BEST WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" please hear me out on the reasons why being a kid was NOT as awesome as you think it was.

1. No one takes you seriously.

2. Naps were the worst.

People always say, "I wish I appreciated naps more as a kid," but that's only because now you have school and/or a job and you're exhausted and need a nap! When you were a kid the world was your oyster. You wanted to learn and find out everything you could. You wanted to run and play you don't want to sit inside and nap!

3. You can't make any decisions for yourself.

"But mom I don't WANNA take piano lessons!"

"I don't WANNA eat peas!"

"But it's only 9 p.m. and I'm not even TIRED yet!"

When you're an adult you can chose all that, and more, for yourself. Yeah there is more responsibility, but if someone right now tried to treat you like a kid, you would be furious. Even though it seems like it was nice not having to worry about life as a kid, now you're in control of your life. And that's pretty amazing.

4. Grammar - High School

Whoever thinks sending kids to school for eight hours straight from 7 a.m. is a good idea is absolutely nuts. Especially now with extra activities I would be in school from 7:40 a.m. to 5 or 6 at night. THAT'S INSANE! At least in college you get breaks! You get days without class. You get to choose your classes! Your schedule is what you want it to be!

5. Other kids

"Hey four eyes!"

And the insults just get worse from there. Kids are cruel. Yeah, adults can be mean too, but the main difference is you can choose who you see. Maybe you hate your boss or your coworker is a jerk, but your close intimate friends you have more control over. In school, you're stuck with those people all day every day. If you're like me and went to a small school, there's nowhere to run and no where to hide. Plus in school it's a crime to be different. Yet when you enter college being different is what makes you "cool." Funny how that works.

7. The kids' table

All the adults, your heroes, are sitting at the other table. Your parents, your cool aunt, that kind of cute older cousin you secretly like. And yet here you are, thousands of miles away, using a cup as binoculars to try to lip read what your mom is saying to your dad. Are they talking about you? You'll never know. Because here is where you remain, confined like plague victims so your youth won't infect the adults.

8. "I'll tell you when you're older."

Will you? Will you remember? That's like FOREVER away! What could it possibly be then if it's SO bad I can't know now? *starts making a list of everything it could possibly be in head, swears will never forget this moment* *forgets moment 10 days later.*

So do you still wish you were a kid? I'm not saying that all childhood was bad; rather, I'm saying we as adults need to embrace what we wanted so much to be as kids. We need to stop longing for something we will never obtain. Their are so much better things in life to want. Like the new iPhone.