i was thinking abt being a kid... dumb i no but... so many of us want to grow up too fast. but thats not me- more than that, i tend to take the joy of being young for granted. im not trying to be an adult or anything, im just not really considering the fact that i wont always be young. dont get me wrong, i do think all the time abt the future and college and what i want to do and where i want to go in life, but even all of that seems like the far off dreams of a little child. cuz really, that is what i still am, a child. and i am realizing that i am really glad to be able to be that. so many kids have to grow up so fast, that they never get to finish being children. i first started thinking abt this kind of stuff during the summer. ive been watching my friend, trying to be a responsible adult, but not wanting to have to give up being the kid he still is. even though he has the responsibilities of a grown man, he is still just barely 16. hes 8 months younger than me and a grade below me, but where i am a nieve, pretty much carefree child, this younger boy is already much older than me. he is a fun, lively goofy kid... most of the time. and with all of us he holds on to that so hard, prolly cuz everywhere else he has to be a man. i know he trys soo hard to be a mature adult, and he is... but we can all see that it must be hard cuz part of him is still the 14 year old boy who he had to give up to do the right thing. and looking at him, who lost so much of his childhood in the blink of an eye, i realize that childhood is a precious thing. before -i never appreciated just how delicate a thing childhood was. but looking at my friend i realize that it is fragile and can vanish in a second- so i had better cherish it, while i still can.