I guess many of you know Peter Pan. The boy who wouldn't grow up.
Either through the book or the numerous adaptations in comics and film.
A boy who decided to live in a different world, with no grown-ups except a pirate.
He could fly, he lived in a tree with his friends and talked to fairies.
The pirate was an awful man, with a wooden leg and a hook for a hand.
Also the pirate didn't know how to have fun while for Peter Pan every day was an adventure.
Peter is everything we ever dreamed about as children and Hook is an old man with difficulties in movement and always angry. Who would you want to be?
Well I don't know about you but I used to dream that Peter Pan would come flying in from the window and take me to his magical Neverland.
I guess, since my birthday is close, it's inevitable that I'll think about how I am growing up. Think about how far I have come and what comes next. Well what I want to do is be a child. I never really wanted to grow up.
When you are a child you can't wait to grow up. You don't want people to be treating you like a child. But children are carefree. They have no stress. They are allowed to get away with many things. They have unlimited imagination that can turn a carton box into a castle. They want so much but they can be happy with so little. They can always smile. They recover so fast when they are hurt, they get up and continue running almost immediately.
I want to be like that.
I don't want to be a pirate.
