I'm afraid to grow up because sometimes it seems like things will never feel this beautiful again.

The only thing we're getting is older. This time never comes back around, it just goes away.

You wake up, but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that is yours. The only place on the planet that understands you. It understands the way your nerves flare everytime you think about talking to anyone, scared into shyness at the thought of opening your mouth but the way you are the best hypocrite around when you're in front of a microphone. It knows what turns that switch on and off and on again. It understands the way when you don't have a smile on your face everyone only spits: "what's wrong"s and "you look tired"s. So the way you keep it on your face just wide enough to avoid questions. It understands how neurotic you have become, the way you treat your flaws like old friends.
- Pete Wentz -

Don't ever complain about growing old, so many people never get the chance.

You can't waste time over missing something in the past. Life changes, people grow up and grow apart, and you accept that.Yet you still can't stop thinking of how good it used to be. Afraid you'll never experience something like it again; afraid you've already lived it and already lost it.

Times have changed and so have I. I once was young and starry-eyed, now I have these bittersweet memories. Songs were long and gas was cheap, no cell phones and water was free. Daddy paid and I never had to worry.

Growing up is full of big moments. Some of them you can see coming from a mile away, and some you can't see at all.
- The Wonder Years -

I'm so scared that growing up means dying a little inside.

We were dreamers not so long ago, but one by one, we had to grow up.

Have you ever heard a song from so long ago with so many memories tied to it that it made you cry? and didn't you wish that you could go back in time when everything was simpler and carefree? Those are the songs that are the soundtracks of our lives..the ones that bring back our childhoods, best friends, first love, first broken heart, and the memories.

I never thought those times would last forever, but now that they're gone, I'm pretty sure we grew up too fast.

I knew the years would move quickly. Just never quite as fast as this.

This time we didn't make any wishes for the future. We said goodbye to our past. Now, none of us has any idea of where life is gonna take us, 'cause what we have is now. And right now we have each other.
- Crossroads -

It's hard to believe we aren't those kids anymore, almost as hard as it is to believe we ever were.

The process of growing up is nothing more than figuring out what doors haven't been slammed in your face yet.

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.
- The Wonder Years -

Everything, I mean love, romance, relationships...it all falls together perfectly, and it's incredible. It's those moments, no matter how depressingly few and far between, that make growing up worth it.

Between going to college and holding down a job, I’ve lost contact with everyone who was ever important to me. I thought college was supposed to be this great experience, but how can it be with no one to experience it with?