Addicted To Growing Up

It's not the growth

Itself

That's addictive

It's what comes with it

The benefits of growing up

Of growing old

The freedom

When you're 10

You're the top of elementary school

When you're 11

You're in middle school

When you're 14

You're in high school

At 16

You can drive

That's more freedom

At 18

You're an adult

More freedom

At 21

You can drink your soul away

At 23

Your brain is fully developed

Then you fall in love

Have kids

Raise a family

Then you grow old

You earn your respect

You tell stories from when

You were still young

Then comes

The hands of death

And you're gone

But you've left a goal

For future generations

So it was all worth it

Cuz you couldn't stop

You were addicted

To growing up