To the little girl who wishes she was all grown up,
I was you one time. I wore heels while playing dress-up. Whenever I went to the toy section of Big Y, I always bought a toy cell phone. With older siblings as an influence, I slipped out some bad words or words a seven-year-old probably shouldn't say like the word "sexy". I saw the women in magazines who always look perfect, I started wearing make-up fairly early in my life. I wanted to look pretty, look grown up and feel grown up.
Life seemed so much better being all grown up: being able to get your learners permit and later on get your driver's license, having your own car to drive you around place to place, having the best cell phone, to have your own job and make your own money, to have the power to buy what you want with the money you earned, go on dates, kiss a boy, be in college and have full independence living on campus, go to parties, staying up late, and the list only goes on.
I feel like it was just yesterday I was that little girl trying to live her life while also being influenced by the dream of being older, more independent, and so-to-say, 'wiser'. I've grown up and when people say, "Be careful what you wish for", it is true... be careful what you wish for. Being grown up and a college student with lots of independence is great and something I enjoy, however, I miss being a kid and not having a huge workload and not having to worry about finances and things adults have to constantly worry about. When you get older, you hold much more responsibility than you ever had before in your life.
Life is a beautiful thing in itself: living, growing, changing, transforming, finding your purpose, and loving what you do. But when you get older, you look back and wonder why it all went by so fast. That today you are posing for your sophomore year first day of school picture and you feel like you were just standing in your driveway getting ready to go on the bus entering the first grade.
It's little moments like those that are a puzzle piece to your life's memories and accomplishments. Life is so beautiful, but truly only comes once. You will experience everything as you grow, it's inevitable, for enjoy the moments you presently live in.
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
-Soren Kierkegaard
So, little one, enjoy each day. Tackle each day through the good and the bad. Do what you love and love what you do. It all will pay off and make you... you.
Sincerely,
A Little Girl Who Isn't So 'Little' Anymore
