Growing Up

~ Gottfried

Being an adult is the dumbest thing I have ever done. I don’t know how to act my age, I’ve never been this age before. Matter of fact, I literally just got here. When my kids grow up, I’m going to their house, jumping on their furniture, raiding their fridge and making a huge mess, then just leave! Some of you will become your parents, I’m here to warn you.

Do you remember the time we couldn’t wait to grow up? What the hell were we thinking? As I grow older and wiser, I’ve begun to understand how little I understand. By the time you’re 80 years old, you’ve learned everything. You have to remember it. Growing up is overrated, being immature is where it’s at. I see no good reason to act my age. I may be mature on the outside, but inside, I’m just a kid with a credit card.

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. Now you understand why Peter Pan didn’t want to grow up. I would give an arm and a leg to be a 10-year-old again. I had a smaller list of worries. Food and housing weren’t a part of that list. Just needed to pass my exams, wash a few plates and run a handful of errands while on insane amounts of sugar. Adulthood is looking both ways before you cross the street and get hit by an aeroplane.

A grownup is a child with layers on. The first 40 years of childhood are always the hardest. Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun. You’re never too old to do goofy stuff. It took me five years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous. Age is not how old you are but how many fun years you’ve had.

Don’t let your daughter wear makeup at 10, date at 12, wear provocative clothing at 15 and then wonder why she got pregnant at 16. You did that! You basically handed her the tools. At some point, we have to let kids be kids. Parents have to put their foot down and ensure teens dress like teens. Too much hurry to look old these days. Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.

Rent, Taxes, Death. I hate growing up. People who know me as Ebuka always have the most to say. The Gottfried crew are a lot more civil and respectful. They know I no longer hand out free hugs, you have to pass the fresh scent contest first. Don’t stretch out your hand for a handshake, you’re getting a fist bump. Don’t look at me, I didn’t change I grew up.

You should try it sometime.

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76 thoughts on “Growing Up”

  4. Wow Mr. Gottfried Just When i Think i May Finally Be Getting

    Old Enduring Nagging Public Dance Injuries and the Such

    Over the Decade of Doing that Poof The Injury goes Away

    And Typically there is Another Challenge Yet This Has

    Always Been Reality Ever Since i Continually

    Stubbed my Big Toe Playing Barefoot

    With the Neighborhood Kids Every

    Day Without A Break Until

    the TV Series “Dark Shadows”

    Came on in the Afternoon and i Started

    to Become More TV Than Human Oh a Lifetime

    of Electronic Media Still Listening to Music From

    Youth on YouTube How Can Ya Grow Old When

    The Emotions of Youth May Continue Practically

    Forever as the Difference Between the Beatles

    And 1967 And Now is 56 Years in 1967

    Comparably Speaking 1911 About

    As Far Back As We Went With

    Music then Just A Few

    Decades and What

    They Called “Elevator
    Music” From the 50’s
    And Perhaps a Few 40’s

    Yet Nope No 1911 By Far

    And of Course No Youtube

    Free to Recall the Emotions of Youth

    Other Than that Folks in China and Japan

    For the Most Part Aren’t Even Planning On

    Getting Married and Having Child Which Means

    of Course A Childhood Extended Across the ages

    The Age of the Child is Here indeed The ‘Aeon’ As Forecast

    By Other Folks Who Just Never Wanted to Grow Up And Do Adulting too…

    And Just A Reflection of the Biggest Law of Nature Balance as Humans

    Living Out of Balance are Freely Culling Their Populations Now

    As Nature is the

    Big Boss and

    Human Think

    Is Not Really

    Boss at all

    Except of

    Course

    As it

    Thinks So

    Hehe Being
    Financially
    Independent
    As Rare As That
    May Be These Days
    of Spend Every Paycheck
    Ya Have Even if it is Beyond
    6 Figures in the United States
    Among “Millennial Kids” too

    No Need to Do Adult After

    The Money MaKinG And

    Yep Dear Lord Being

    A Cog In Someone

    Else’s Machine

    Required to Make

    A Living More Than Actually Live Free Naked Enough Whole Complete
    God Yes Free As a Child of Wonder And Gratitude to be Alive Truly Alive…

    Anyway it Was Really Magical We’ve Been Having a Heat Wave and

    Drought and Soon as Thunder and Rain Came today the Pain

    Melted Away and i Found myself Flying With Wings

    Weight of Finger Tips Balancing Again in

    Barnes and Noble Meditating

    A Flow of Public Dance

    Reading a Full Book
    in About an Hour Yes
    Listening to Meditative
    Music and Entertaining

    The Star Bucks College

    Study Group All For Free

    Dear Lord Who Will Do that/this Yet a Child
    Wisdom of ‘Horus’ With Base of Pyramid on High..:)

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      1. SMiLes Mr Gottfried If my Butt One Day
        No Longer Will Move a Dance i Find Great

        Solace in Fingers Still Flying Across the

        Keys And Dancing

        A Song Still Singing

        Young So Old With SMiLes

        True Creativity is the Fountain

        of Youth Always Creating New With

        SMiLes Fingers Delivering Many New Born

        Babies

        Of Letters

        With SMiLes
        And Yes Even

        Occasionally

        Untitled Hugs too…

        Keep Making New Connections

        Above So Below Within Inside Outside

        And All Around It’s What the Milky Way

        Does Keep Spiraling A New MultiVerse INDeed..:)

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          1. Ah Yes Mr Gottfried Even A Non-Verbal Expression of A Smile

            Moving Across A Face Is Dance Producing

            Emotions in Us And All of Who We

            Connect to ThiS WaY Yet

            of Course Not

            Everyone Smiles

            A Dance ThiS WaY

            Yet even EYes Dance

            When Glittering Deep Intent…

            Anyway Back to the Public Dance

            Perhaps my New American Indian Name

            Will Come to Be ‘Dances With Left Foot’ As

            Long as The Right Leg is in the Repair Shop hehe…

            Yep Make FRiEnDS

            With the Pain

            Even Make

            Fun oF iT iN
            A LiGHT HeARTeD Way..:)

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          3. “Friends Are The Fabric of Society”

            Indeed Dear Mr Gottfried Basic

            Yet Profound These Clothes of Society

            We Wear And Howl At A Super Full Blue Moon

            Still Looking for a ‘Pack’

            Or A Tribe Or Yes hehe

            Pirate FRiEnDS

            If We Haven’t Found

            Any Yet That Speak Our

            Same Human Language of FRiEnDShiP…

            It’s Easy to Do in ‘Real Life’ Just Do the Small

            Talk of Dance And Song And Allow the Warmth

            To Fill and Feel the Room Without Ceilings or WallS iNDeeD

            Or Sure Dance
            And Sing A Song

            In Church With all the
            Archangels Above So Below

            As SPiRiTS Come Together As

            One And God Fills And Feels the
            Concert Halls Full

            mY FRiEnD

            With Vibrations
            Frequencies Synergies
            of Human Together Beyond

            All Measure Once Again God Breathes Among Us…

            Ascending Transcending We Come Together as One

            With A Dance And Song As Simple as A SMiLe Shared For Free

            LoVE iN Peace…

            Hehe Hey it’s A Challenge
            To Do it as An Avatar Of
            Words Yet With Enough

            Practice Words

            Naturally Become
            Organic Poetry Free

            With No Systemizing Mind Pre-Planned..:)

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          5. “Does God dance though?”

            Brevity of Wit Indeed You Do
            Possess Mr. Gottfried “Move and
            Repose” God Is the Essence of Dance

            A Stone Dances Slowly As God’s Partner

            Sadly Humans May Forget to Dance And

            Sit Stagnant

            And Still in

            Front of A

            6 Inch Screen

            Horizon So Narrow

            Compared to WHere the
            Sky Meets the Ocean Globe Wide

            Stars Reflecting on the Surface

            Still Dancing Shimmering

            The Ocean Whole to

            Return the SMiLes

            of Existence Again the

            DarK ThE LiGHT DaNCinG THiS SonG…

            NoThing Special JusT HOWLinG At A Super Full Blue Moon..:)

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