The irony of time...

Remember as a kid when we used to watch grown-ups being allowed to do things we were never allowed to do? Hearing something like "You're too young for this" or "She is allowed to because she is much older", was so common. Almost everything that we wanted to do was met with a firm "No".

Ok so we grew older. What we couldn't do at 5 we were allowed to at 10. What we couldn't at 10 we did at 15. Which means that when we were kids we kept wanted to grow older because we thought that those elder to us had lives that were so much fun and ours', at that age, was just plain boring...
I remember vividly when i was in school to have wanted to desperately to complete studying and begin working. Imagine the freedom and money! (it was actually just the money and the doing away with exams). I bet there are many who thought the same way.

Getting a job, first salary, the first day of shopping with earned money was an awesome experience. Getting the independence that was craved for since childhood finally came true. Revelling in it, we took firmer strides forward in our 'work-life'.
And then the realization set in that we didn't really have the independence of childhood. Sleeping late into the day is now termed as childish. We don't get to spend as much time with friends as we used to. Idle afternoons do not exist and most importantly, there are no summer holidays!
And now, we do not want to grow older any more! ha! We always wanted to so far, didn't we?

Now, growing older is synonymous with greying, wrinkles, gaining more weight than what we have already gained, kids (aaaa...!), and finally senility! How ironic, isn't it? What we always wanted, we don't any more..
So now, we see kids and envy them. While they look at us and envy us. :P We have the money, we have grown up but we still wanna go home, throw our bags and run out to play. Come to think of it, if we did that it'd be pretty funny.

But life is just what one's perspective makes of it anyway.