Is growing up truly worth it at all?

Aug 28
NabanitaDhar

No teachers to fear,
No exams to appear,
No rules to adhere,
With no tests to clear!
Ah such sweet a reverie we wove,
Of life’s fair little treasure cove!
But alas innocent dreams of yore,
All gone awfully sore,
Is this what we grew up for?
Is this what we grew up for?
Life’s path, our choice
In decisions to rejoice,
No burden to oblige
None but the self as guide
Oh but we knew not,
The other side of life’s knots!
A lightning bolt in verity begot,
Life’s turns not ever in ways it aught,
Is this the brutal scary plot?
Is this the brutal scary plot?
Appease him, appease her,
Hitches and hurt to never deter,
Walking on life’s tight high rope,
With moments of joy, often of hope,
But the seldom fall,
Oh the great big fall, never yet banal!
Brings along the misery appall,
While we just mull,
Is growing up truly worth it at all?
Is growing up truly worth it at all?

37 thoughts on “Is growing up truly worth it at all?”

  3. Its not. At all. Unfortunately its the way nature planned it. We all need to grow up. Like it or not. Worth it or not.

    Awesome poem, as always 🙂

  6. Beautifully written nabanita!
    As kids, we liked playing mama papa game and waited to be the self-regulated person. Later, we only try reliving on nostalgia fearing the coming days….
    Nice one!

  7. Well written, Nabanita.
    Growing up is seldom more than a rude shock. Which is why too many people live permanently down the memory lane!

  8. Nicely written Naba. It's such an irony that as a kid I used to look up at adults and I couldn't wait to grow up, to earn, to be able to spend money as I wished, to be free. And now I want to go back to being a kid 🙂

  9. Great work…an effortless flow of words which somewhere all of us have felt in our growing up years!!

  15. Me too Prasanna .. I want to go back to being a kid.. I don't want to cook or clean or do anything else…I just want my carefree life back 🙂

  17. Lovely flow and could not but accept the truth in the poem. Growing up we miss all the sweetness life once offered us long back

  19. Nice flow of words ! Didnt someone say..that man is never happy.As a child, one wants to be an adult and once you become one,you long to be a child 🙂

  20. All our life we spend wishing we were older because we were told we were too little to do the things we wanted to do then 🙂 aaahh for those days of bliss and no responsibility…guess we all have to grow up sometime. 🙁 lovely poem 🙂

  21. Beautifully penned, Naba…and there's a lot to ponder on…!!
    Growing up wasn't easy, btw, even at my age, I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow old..(though, I'm probably almost there :D)

  27. Thanks Panchali 🙂

    I keep missing my childhood days, and so often these days..miss being at home with parents with no worries except those regarding studies! And I too don't know where I'm going to be when old ..

  35. That was lovely!!

    I agree – growing up is over rated! 😛
    I still feel like a kid and if you ever want to feel like a kid – make sure your parents scold you for something!! 😉
    And that makes you feel 10 all over again! 😀

  36. I think there are pros and cons to everything including childhood and adulthood. However, since we all – some more than others – have an inner child within us, I think we do miss out on joys in life as we grow up with more responsibilities and stress. Your poem reads like a song, with the last line repeating…is it one? 😉 <3

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