Here's to never growin' up

the end is actually here. everyone is discussing their summer plans. the seniors are talking about what they'll do after graduation: going on missions, going to college, a scholarship here and a scholarship there . . . 

but i won't be a part of those things because i'm just a junior right now. 

my heart tells me it's so ready to be done with school and it's ready to move on to other things. it says it's ready for long late nights and playing and having fun and going on adventures that make it pound and beat rapidly. but my mind says something totally different. 

my mind says make time go slower, it's not ready for this. stop time and hold onto this moment forever. make it last a little longer. it's not ready for being mature and moving on to those responsibilities. 

i just can't do it. i'm just a kid! i can't grow up! 

SO HERE'S TO NEVER GROWIN' UP 

here's to the long nights and wild parties 

here's to the ridiculous things we said 

here's to the time we spent watching Disney movies with our families 

here's to the times we all wished we were grown up already 

here's to the secret crushes  

the first kisses   

the sweet 16's 

here's to the first jobs and first day of work 

here's to that first job application we filled 

here's to that school dance we were so excited about with that one special person 

 

here's to the sun getting hotter  

                    nights getting longer 

                    hair getting lighter 

                    skin getting darker 

and for all of us who haven't lost it: 

HERE'S TO NEVER GROWIN' UP

don't forget to remember

i remember meeting my best friend in kindergarten.  
i remember when i dropped out of dance when i was 6. now i really wish i hadn't done that. 
i remember the time i licked a stop sign just because i wanted to be crazy. 
i remember delivering the Homecoming Game Ball on horseback(yes that was me) 
i remember rock jumping at Rampart Reservoir in Colorado. 
i remember hiking the Incline and then finding out it was technically illegal.  

i remember when i almost fell off a horse. it scared me to death and i cried and i was angry. i was scared of horses for a while and told myself i'd never ride again.  

i remember all the nights i cried myself to sleep because one of my best friends was moving and i got all worked up and thought that i would never see him again.  

i remember when i first said i hated people. 
i remember when i read a book in an hour and 15 minutes. it was a Magic Treehouse book, Lions at Lunchtime. 
i remember telling myself i wasn't going to graduate. 

i remember the first time i sassed my math teacher. he could not believe those things could possibly come out of such a seemingly quiet girls' mouth. but i said it and i'm not taking it back. 

i remember when someone thought my henna was an actual tattoo. 
i remember how much i loved pancakes and milk and peanut butter. 
i remember falling in love with the idea of never growing up. that's still my plan. 

i remember one summer night when my cousins came to visit and we drove our old suburban on the highway with the windows down. we sang the lyrics to every Taylor Swift song we knew at the top of our lungs.

You can't catch lightning

lightning flashes across the sky, it rips the sky apart with each fork 
it intriguers me; coming and going 
I want to catch it and keep one little fork in a bottle 
But as hard as I try, I will never be able to catch lightning 

Someone once told me that lightning never strikes the same place twice 
But I didn't believe them. I couldn't believe them. 
I mean, that couldn't really be possible . . . could it? 
But you can't catch lightning 

Lightning inspires me; its the one earthly phenomenon that truly fascinates me 
Lightning is heaven'sIf the handwriting, all jagged and spidery  
Each fork in unique and different 
But I will never catch lightning  

If the Earth is female, what does that make lightning? 
Is it male or female? 
Does anybody know? 
Lightning is "nigh uncatchable" 

Lightning is THE free spirit 
Lightning will run forever 
But as hard as you try, you will never catch lightning 

But you can't catch lightning 

lightning 

Lightning 

LIGHTNING 

But you can't catch lightning