So, I finally decided to put up a new mini-article for my archive. Here it is:

Growing up can be a problem. A lot of problem. In fact, a HUGE problem. Why? Because as we grow up, we want more things, more EXPENSIVE things. Growing up comes with the liberty to choose what we want and what we expect. Compared to being a kid who doesn’t really get to choose what he or she wants. But what I really want to say is: Although grown ups are already “grown up”, the tingling feeling of being a kid still lingers. Before reality takes its place, the childish acts and thoughts of every individual is still inside the “grown up” body. Face it, humans are childish. There is still a child in every single one of us. And sometimes, this childishness makes us forget about reality. Well it can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Good because it releases us from all the stress that is building up in our lives and allows us to have fun. And bad because we sometimes forget that we are no longer a kid, but an adult. A bigger and smarter person who has priorities, responsibilities and expectations to meet. Sounds hard but that is how life is.

We can be childish in how we act or talk. Take this for example: your parents didn’t get you what you wanted for your birthday. SO you end up sulking and locking yourself in your bedroom. This is a typical act for a child who is more or less 10 years old. Children in this age has a few, if not, no understanding of the problems and hard work that parents apply every day in their lives to support the family. This is a reality check. Now, being a teenager—a young adult—I still sulk if I don’t get what I want. I am not contradicting myself, this is in fact childish of me. But here’s the difference between me and a 10-year-old child: I have enough understanding of what’s happening before my eyes. The truth that has been right in front of me through these years: We don’t always get what we want! It’s just impossible. Impossible unless hard work has been applied. Well, you just don’t get a paycheck by sitting around doing nothing.

Now, I am not saying this to tell you and stop being childish. I am saying this because I want to share with you what this thing called reality really is because I, myself am childish. And will always be childish. But there’s also a limit and a line between childishness and working hard. Sometimes we forget where all of the things we have come from and how we came to own them. It’s because of all the efforts of the people who made them, and because of the efforts of the parents who worked hard to be able to buy them for us.

I kept this mini-article for a long time now, and I decided that its the right time to actually have something up. Something new for my archive. If you want to read previous articles, just click on the archive link.

If anyone reads Fanfiction, I added a new SasuSaku story. It’s quite chessy, but I really love the bolded parts that I highlighted.

“You can’t be a knight in shining armor if you don’t defeat the big dragon.”