Grow up

grow up

No thanks.

We are told from a very early age by teachers, parents, society that we need to ‘grow up’.

What does that really mean?

What like grow up like ‘adults’?

I am not really sure what ‘grown up’ means, it is perhaps defined by the system to be the desired outcome of becoming an adult.

So grown up means, working, paying taxes, getting married, having kids, being serious, being good boys and girls, and doing as we are told.

Getting old is mandatory, we will all age, but deciding to be ‘grown up’ is a choice, not something you have to do because you are say 25 or 50 or 70.

At what age is it unacceptable to not be grown up?

I will be 50 this year, the most miserable part of my life was when I became grown up and serious, I am now back to being free and rebellious again, and happy.

So don’t give up your freedom of enjoying life, having fun, being silly, messing about and being disobedient. Don’t opt to die at 20 then buried at 75.

Never grow up, stay young, free, childish and happy whatever your age.

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?

What ever happened Leon Trotsky….

Well I know that was called ‘no more heroes’, but it could be called ‘no more rebels’.

What happened to the Che Guevara’s?
What happened to the Gandhi’s?
What happened to the John Lennon’s?
What happened to the revolutionaries? The rebel rock stars?

What happened to the students on the streets of Paris?

What happened to demonstrations?

What happened to any form of disobedience?

Where is the lone man in Tiananmen Square standing in front of a tank?

Where are the Martin Luther King’s, who inspired 250,000 people before the internet and Google maps to travel to Washington DC to hear ‘I have a dream’?

The system has made us all so fearful of disobedience, we have become so apathetically compliant.

There is so much more than ever to rebel about, yet silence, and our freedoms are being taken from us without a struggle.

What will it take for a rebel to rise? How much more war, inequality, poverty, abuse, destruction of the planet and much more are we willing to take?