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As a kid you just want to grow up Even when the adults tell you not to Independence and adulthood is your focus When they warned us away from growing up they forgot to mention a few things: No one said being an adult would feel like drowning, like a slow suffocation you do to yourself You do what you have to in order to survive. You keep breathing in the things that drown you, because what else are you going to do with them But with each breath you sink lower and lower. With each breath you learn something new about yourself With each breath you are forced to take under this water made of                bills,                                        and jobs,                               a lot of responility and not much sleep                                               you drown a little more and resign your self to the slow death of adulthood
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 6:38 AM UTC
The Slow Death of Adulthood
As a kid you just want to grow up Even when the adults tell you not to Independence and adulthood is your focus When they warned us away from growing up they forgot to mention a few things: No one said being an adult would feel like drowning, like a slow suffocation you do to yourself You do what you have to in order to survive. You keep breathing in the things that drown you, because what else are you going to do with them But with each breath you sink lower and lower. With each breath you learn something new about yourself With each breath you are forced to take under this water made of                bills,                                        and jobs,                               a lot of responility and not much sleep                                               you drown a little more and resign your self to the slow death of adulthood
andrea
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 6:38 AM UTC
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