The wisdom age brings

I was chatting at work today and it seems to me that every child is in such a big hurry to grow up. "When can I go by myself"...When can I drive..When can I date....and so on with every wish we all made as a young child. The idea of growing up though was not as constricting as it really is. When we wished to be older as a child it was really becasue we all just wanted more freedom. Then we grow up and realize that we are out of the comfort of our parents love and into the hands of our spouces, bosses, teachers, coworkers, and everyone else we must answer to. Some of us acceptr this early on in our young adult hood, others go well beyond there thirties to realize that there is no real freedom, we ared allways answering to someoone else. I once had a co-worker tel me that they had a band once and wanted to be a star and when I ask what happened and he said I grew up, he went on how he was a late bloomer though and it took his wife and child to see the light but it happened...he realized if not the place he was, well then it would just be some other face to answer to. Some other boss, coworkers, woman and so forth. I am sure that I am not the only one saying this but I want no one to answer to. I want to go back to the days when I was about 12..old enough to cross the street by myself but still too young to have any real responsibilities..... Dont get me wrong, not all of growing up has been bad, I love my children and by all means this would have nev ver happened if I was still 12 and cluless to what evedn created them.