Do you ever wish you were seven years old again?
Things are simple when you're seven.
You have almost zero responsiblillities and your parents still treat you like you're the only thing in the world that matters to them.
When you're seven, your world is still small.
Most everything you see is new, fascinating, wonderful.
Everyday you learn something.
You're innocent.
You're still cute.
And you don't see the bad things that happen daily all over the earth.
The only thing you need to make you happy is a bucket full of candy and a hug from your mommy.
Things are simple when you're seven....

But soon, you're eight.
Then nine.
10, 11, 12.

And thirteen slaps you across the face.
You're considered a teenager. You have your whole life ahead of you. You're on top of the world because you're finally thirteen.
But you're still a kid.
You still cry. But you cry for different reasons.
Your world isn't as small as it was, you know that people suffer, but you really don't understand.
Your parents trust you to do more things, but not nearly as much as you want.
And you're stuck.
You're only thirteen.

Two years later, you're stuck at fifteen.
You're a sophomore in highschool.
The only world you know, revolves around you.
You're fully aware of the way others suffer.
But you don't care.
Because you're fifteen.
You have to focus on you.
That's what society has taught us, right?
You are the most important in your life.
Is that wrong?
The answer is yes. It's completely wrong.
You're fifteen.
You're still creating yourself. You're trying to find out where you stand and what you're going to fight for.
You're realizing that people don't have respect for you.
Maybe, you're even realizing that most people don't have respect for anyone.
When you're fifteen, you're pulled in two directions.
Everyone wants you to grow up, but you want to stay a kid. You want to be seven.


Maybe that's where we get our teenage angst.
We get a taste of what we think the real world is, selfish people, doing selfish things.
We don't want to face the ignorance, arrogance, and selfishness that exist beyond the walls of our houses, so we become bitter.
We want, more then anything, to go back to simple. To go back to seven.

There isn't any heartache, the whole world seems happy, and life just seems like it'll go on forever.

Seven.