child

I don’t think any of us ever grow up
To be an adult just means that
it is time that people stop feeling sorry for you

Me
I never stopped feeling sorry for adults
I cried a lot when I watched ‘the pursuit of happyness’
how he was a struggling adult in every way

“You don’t have to feel sorry for adults”
People would tell me
They would say
1. stop giving money to the homeless
don’t feel sorry for them
2. don’t talk to strangers
3. bring pepper spray everywhere you go
so I keep my guard up

I was an adult when I heard that
“The only true philosophical question is to decide whether or not to keep living”
today, i think it is better to not have seen it that way
and to only live by what children hear :
1. “sharing is caring”
2. “always love your parents” etc
so I will choose
to remain a child for
as long as I choose
to be alive