Growing Up Is Hard to Do — A Playlist

"Candy is childhood, the best and the bright moments you wish could have lasted forever." — Dylan Lauren

Time just keeps rolling on, and you get further and further from the wide-eyed wonder that you once were, dizzy in your own world of blanket forts and make-believe.

I've always been a very nostalgic person—a double-edged sword of sorts. Who doesn't miss being a kid? You don't even have enough life experience at the time to realize that you should be appreciating every moment of being a child, so you just keeping thinking how awesome it'd be to be a teenager. (Ew.)

I guess you could say this is the Wendy version of my Neverland playlist; realistic, and slightly more somber, but tinged with hope. Wendy chooses to leave Neverland, because she decides that staying a kid forever isn't really all it's cracked up to be. She's happier for it.

Maybe we will be, too?

AIN'T IT FUN // paramore