Don't Grow Up; It's a Trap: Inspiring Quotes and Funny Statements to Stave off Adulthood

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I haven’t slept in since I was about 29. I’m 33 now and there doesn’t seem to be any change in my future. I used to be a person who could survive on little to no sleep and who could sleep in until 12-2. I don’t know that this is something to be proud of but it is definitely something I miss. I’m not really trying to sleep in until noon but it would be nice to get to sleep past 6:30. I legit get happy if I make it to 8 without waking up. About This Job Thing… If instead you mean to let each enhance the other at the exclusion of neither, I have every interest.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough hour ago Customers Aren’t Sold on Clothing Brands’ Social Impact New research suggests that businesses might not be doing an adequate job of communicating to customers what they’re doing to improve society. Childlike behavior is considered the most genuine in terms of human reactions and emotions. It consists of the capacity for innocence, wonder, awe, joy, sensitivity, and playfulness. It is indeed the purest, most fun and fascinating way to approach life and its unavoidable hardships. So, for your inspiration, here are 18 quotes which will make you want to embrace your inner child and allow yourself to appreciate everything around you with the curious, innocent eyes of a child. Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.” – Alejandro Cremades

Many of us are guilty of not taking enough time to dial into our inner child’s voice.” – Kim Ha Campbell On that frustrating night, I was fretting about the worst performance of my whole day at an interview. I transferred all my irritation to my bike accelerator and zipped down the road at top speed. Suddenly, an old man was ahead waving his hand for lift. I stopped my bike roughly very close to him. He just looked up and smiled for a moment, then asked if I could drop him after two miles from here. Every child does that naturally. So we don’t have to learn nothing. We just need to drop our bundle of thoughts and beliefs from the child you’ve known the best: yourself.Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.” – Grigoris Deoudis We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.” – Serina Hartwell

I’ve talked about how hard it is to make friends but it’s also hard to maintain friendships once you get older. Do y’all realize how good you have it in HS/College when it comes to friends? Well really when it comes to quite a lot of things but especially friends! You have built in people with pretty much your same exact schedule and priorities and no real responsibilities. This isn’t the case 100% of the time but it is a good 95% of the time and it’s AMAZING. That Metabolism Though…The endless list of do’s and don’ts handed down while growing up, gradually and unconsciously distance us from the inner child.” – Santosh Joshi When we are kids, we want to be an adult because we believe if we are a ‘big’ person, we can do anything we want. We can choose to be liberated in life. That child’s mindset often stays too long in our memory. It makes us not accept the reality of growing up that brings us more responsibility than liberation. But, it teaches us many things. Sometimes, the problems come when we are not ready enough. “Have the courage to leave Bad things.” On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you’re alive. You can only live in one day. – Ray Fearon

Kids don’t have much of the past, so they don’t need to stress over anything, they are always free from past and future.Jokes aside, it was most probably to grow up and be an adult already. How often do we hear children say “ When I grow up, I will…“. It’s as if adulthood is this long-awaited stage when everything will begin for us, finally. We wait for it so anxiously until it does happen, eventually. Of course, nobody can remain a child forever, such is the way of life. However, throwing your inner child away might be one of the biggest mistakes you can make! The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things.” – Henna Sohail Don’t like ads? Become a supporter and enjoy The Good Men Project ad free “Ready or not, you have no choice.” Either our inner child comes out to play and makes all things possible, or we mold our characters and events from our own experiences, or our dreams of wanting to experience.” – Judith Kohnen, One Chance, One Moment One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

Y’all do not understand how good you have it in your teens/early twenties when it comes to metabolism! Yes some people have it hard when they’re young and some maintain that great metabolism when they’re older but the majority of us experience a drastic decline in metabolism sometime after 25. Mine happened around 28/29 and it was quite honestly the WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME. I’m dramatic, I know. It is honestly awful to go from eating whatever the hell you want and then waking up one day and realizing you can’t do that anymore. Hi, I’d like to Sleep In Again. Thanks.Most importantly, kids live in the moment and take pride in knowing that even though the rest of the world may disagree, they still see this as a beautiful place with zero obligations.