Don't Wish Your Life Away

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Don't Wish Your Life Away

by Morgan

Last Saturday, I was sitting on the couch all snuggled up with a blanket and my mom watching an episode of Full House. I had seen the episode before, as I have almost all of them, when a story popped into my head. I remember being eight years old and watching the show with my mom. After the show, we had a conversation about it.

I said, “Mom, when will I be as old as DJ?”
“You have a while sweetie,” she said.
“But I want to be as old as her now. I want to be able to wear make-up and go to high school. I want to walk to each class with my books instead of having them in a desk. But most of all I want a locker outside the classroom.”
“Don’t wish your life away,” she said. “Someday you’re going to want to have a desk with your stuff in it, and a locker inside the classroom, and you won’t be able to. Enjoy those things now while you can,” she said.

When she said this, I really did not think anything of it. I just brushed it off like most eight year olds would. Back to last Saturday…It was the episode where the character DJ was getting ready for college.

I said to my mom, “I can’t believe DJ’s getting ready for college and I’m going to have to go through that soon. Before, when I was little and watching the show, it seemed so far away.”

“I know, you and your sister are growing up so fast,” she said.
I began to say, “I am really excited. I want…..”
She cut me off. “Morgan, remember don’t wish your life away,” she said.
That’s when it hit me that I really need to start watching what I wish for, as people say.

Now, looking back on it, I can’t believe how fast my whole childhood went. All the things I used to do were never a big deal, and now I wished I enjoyed them more as a kid, because I’ll never get those things back. Life is like a train, you’re on the tracks and things are happening to you. You can’t say things like, “I can’t wait till this or that,” because the train won’t stop and you can’t turn the train around and get the stuff you wished away back.

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