Grow up.

Growing up is a crazy thing. You meet people, loose people, learn things, realize things you thought were true aren't and the other way round. You realize that time flies by and there's one thing we all know...you can't stop time.

People you thought were your best friends are now people you wouldn't even acknowledge on the street if you passed them by. Your happiest and funniest memories are shared with people you don't even say hello too over social media anymore. Those people you spent hours a day talking too or being with are nothing but memories.

Growing up let's you realize your mistakes but also the good choices you've made. Coming to terms with bad decisions made can be tough but I always remember this time next year, next week even; it won't even matter. If we don't make those wrong decisions we'll never learn. If we don't make those right ones, we'll never learn. Things are changing every day, hour, second...


Although it's easy to get so wrapped up in our own world, sometimes it's nice too step back and see everyone else's for a little bit. Look around, you probably walk past a minimum of one hundred people a day. Sitting on the bus, walking down your road, in the shop...wherever. Do you ever just wonder how their lives are. The troubles their  going through, what kind of job do they have, are they happy or sad? Sometimes it's nice to get out of my own mind and worries and wonder about someone else's.

See I'm not going to do what I am supposedly meant to do. As in growing old and having serious responsibilities and living the life that's set for us. The life we were told was the right one from birth. Go to school, get an education, get your degree, get a good job, pay bills and taxes, have a family, live for your family and then adios. That's our life in one sentence. But I don't want a one sentence life. I want paragraphs after paragraphs. Pages of my travels and adventures. I don't want to follow this path we are supposedly meant to follow.

I want my own colorful, crazy, adventurous path. And yes they may be full of bad decisions but they'll also be full of happy and good ones. That's growing up. Growing up is realizing yes life isn't all flowers and sunshine but even if life is dark and sad sometimes, the sun soon will shine. Always try and see the good in everything. Because there is always good in everything. Growing up is hard enough without being stuck in a worldwide routine. Be different.

I'm only starting my path and yes I've lost people, met people, cried, smiled, laughed, and thought of giving up but I know everything happens for a reason whatever it may be. I'm growing up but I'm going to grow up the best way I possibly can and you all should too!

(oh if I hear the word grow or growing again I might just go mad)

Tamara.