quoting growing up…

looking up quotes about growing up as a thread of conversations, thoughts, signs in life in past days have brought me to the now - pondering and sharing clues of what growing up could all mean, collected from all sorts of sources/ideas…

quotations are nice to take in.

“Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou

funny how obsessed current consumer culture, and the entire hi-story of colonization has with aging, the fear of getting old and dying. tis quite unnatural really…

strayofftrack:

I realize that my inability to progress as an adult results from my inability to leave my childhood; my inability to let go off the past. Some of the  happiest moments of my life happened when I was a child. There are also many things I wish I could change in my past, things I regret, and because of that I keep living there, hoping and remembering. But, it’s not healthy: you cannot grow if you don’t let go. You will always remain a child if you think like a child. I need to grow up.

Dear strayofftrack,

I rarely reply, though felt intrigued by what you wrote for there was a similar thought in my mind, this realization of things blocking me from acting - from letting go of things.

Letting go, being lighter, not worrying so much about silly thoughts… It is so difficult to do in this current reality of so much suffering no true reasoning.

It is interesting that you call it becoming and adult and leaving childhood, the idea of letting go… For I imagine being a child and being so carefree and learning so much about the world. I know it is impossible to go back to being just that, a budding being, but I also cannot let go of that curiosity of life, of learning.

The meanings behind being adult, of growing up, of what childhood means is all quite confusing in this day of age… It seems everyone I talk to about this idea of what it means to be an adult sees it differently…

Mind bee wandering ‘bout such thoughts,

share some quotes and interesting finds from online with you tumbling friends.

ancient water flows true

love by aiming true…

if fear is all you feel you.ll be haunted by your dreams.

and the darkness you will hide from and you.ll be blinded by all the artificial bright lights.

lost touch with where we came from, where we are, the mother earth that gave birth to us.

the bullshit we are currently slowly being sunk in to be drowned in the end

if we continue to be passively wadding in such shallow waters

if we do not shift and learn how to swim with the tides that be tuned by pendulum of life.

that back and forth between dark and light.

space & time

milky way

universe

ohm

to imagine is so mind blowing that magick comes to mind…

once again mind is blown.

tingles toes and third eye

and the heart is warmed (on fire) of course.

because universe, baby, you amaze me every time!

writing love letters to all of you beautiful souls out there in universe via stardust couriers.

couragencourage

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howling at   full   bloom   moon,

crying out to world - How could we let this be?!you build towers, spreading guns, drugs, and walls.

howl, for how else to let out the anger, the pain -

the howl of 6 billion homosapiens have the power to ignite the earth, erruptting from the core love, not pain.

(insert scribblings of naked folks holwing, eyes shut in passion and rage, up at mother moon)

robed only in the light of the moon.

we howl to set ourselves free