Growing Up:

• Growing up is learning to say you're sorry, and meaning it.
• Growing up is realizing you don't always get what you want.
• Growing up is understanding you SHOULDN'T always get what you want.
• Growing up is knowing that the world does NOT revolve around you.
• Growing up is realizing you can't change the way people feel - not matter how much it hurts.
• Growing up is knowing not every personal 'need' is urgent, and personal 'wants' never are.
• Growing up is understanding that a home isn't built with brick and mortar.
• Growing up is the realization that you don't always have to fight.
• Growing up is knowing when TO fight.
• Growing up means patience.
• Growing up is learning to let go.
• And lastly,
• Growing up means not lamenting the way life SHOULD BE,
• but rather to take joy in what life IS.