An open letter to all the children;

Please don't grow up.

Because growing up isn't rainbows and butterflies, nor ice creams and candies. Growing up isn't stars and galaxies nor silent nights and starry nights. Child, growing up is storms in your head and responsibility in your hands. It's going to be full of nightmares instead of lullabies to send you to sleep. It's full of choices, pain, regret.

And it pains me that there's nothing I can do but to wish that you all stay that little.

You can stay protected and loved. You can cry all you want but there's always going to be someone to cheer you up, because child, when you grow up, no one will wipe those tears but yourself. Everytime you fell when you tried to walk, there was always someone to help you back up. But child, growing up means learning to pick yourself up on your own.

You have to get used to being alone.

Everything's simpler when you stay like that, and I wished I could've stayed like that, because growing up is that rollercoaster you've always dreaded to ride.

So child, even though it's inevitable, please don't you ever grow up.

(inspired by taylor swift's never grow up)