Sadly, everyone does it. Everyone will eventually grow up but that doesn’t mean that I have to be happy about it. When you’re a kid everything is so much easier, everything is new and magical; but when you start to grow up… shit happens. I have listed below some of the reason why I believe that growing up is the absolute worst. After you read this, let's all join together and fly away with my favorite Disney character Peter Pan to Neverland where we can be forever young. Sound good?

When you think about it, growing up is just a reminder that you will never be a kid again; you can’t go back. Your life is now a never-ending vortex of never-ending responsibilities. As adults we long for the days when all we had to worry about was what shows you were going to watch after you got home from school.

Growing up means that you can no longer eat whatever you want. As a kid I could eat an entire pizza, feel great then go hula-hoop for hours. Now when I try and shove an entire pizza down my gullet, I’m disgusting and immature and will need to be taken to the hospital to have my stomach pumped.

I’m sure we can all agree that grown up parties are the worst. You have to dress up, talk about things that you don’t really understand, and the foods they serve are those tiny hors d'Oeuvres that you have to eat a million of to start to feel full. At kids parties, you eat cake, drink juice, belt out the lyrics to the hottest ‘N Sync song until you pass out from a sugar coma, and you always leave with party favors. When I leave a grown up party, I leave hungry and sad.

Growing up also means that, one day, you will wake up feeling tired, and that’s it, you’ll be tired forever.

Making friends, as an adult is pretty hard sometimes. What am I supposed to tell you? My hobbies, interest, and what I do for a living? Are we supposed to head down to the country club and drink really old scotch? No, I won’t do that. You’re awful, all grown ups are awful and I don’t want to be friends with you. When you’re a kid all you have to do is say “Hey, I like your light-up shoes” and BAM you’re sharing a bag of animal crackers at recess and have a friend for life.

And the biggest reason being a grown up is the absolute worst is you suddenly have a load of responsibilities that you didn’t have before and still aren’t prepared to deal with. Long gone are the days when you could sit on the couch in your onesie, drinking chocolate milk watching cartoons. Guess what? I don’t care about being a grown up, so, no matter how old I get, I will sit on the couch in my onesie, drinking chocolate milk watching cartoons and that is the truth.

See ya in Neverland.