What’s your favorite holiday? Is it Christmas, where you get together with the family and open presents together? Is it Halloween, where you wander the streets in costume in search of candy? What about Easter? Thanksgiving? Some other holiday? Here’s another question, why is it your favorite holiday?

People say we all grow up at some point, that we grow out of childish things like cartoons and toys. They say that we’ll realize what really matters in life and abandon these things we once loved so much, but I don’t believe this. Once you think about it, the only real difference between an adult and a child, besides the obvious physical differences, is that adults have more experience than children. They learned how to do things for themselves. They’ve learned morals and responsibility.

Growing up is just gaining experience, so no matter what we’re always growing. I still watch cartoons, go trick or treating, and sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll watch an old Barbie movie just because. This doesn’t mean that I haven’t grown up, it just means I continue to do the things I love. I have a job now, but I still sign up for theater every chance I get, and I still fangirl really badly when a new episode of a T.V show I watch comes out. I also shouldn’t be left alone at home because I’ll turn my shirt into a ninja mask. Growing up is an important part of life, but that doesn’t mean you can’t keep doing what you love.

There are many songs about this, but there are two that I think of when the topic of growing up comes up. Those are ‘Ain’t it Fun‘ by Paramore and ‘Here’s to Never Growing Up‘ by Avril Lavigne. I feel that these songs show different perspectives on how people grow up. Some think that as soon as you enter ‘the real world’ your childhood is over, like in Paramore’s song, but others believe that you only grow up when you stop doing the things you love, like in Avril Lavigne’s song. The truth of the matter is that our interests will change over time, and that’s okay. We’re still us, just a bit different.