I refuse

STOP, everyone just STOP!
STOP telling me how I should think, feel, live at 26
STOP forcing me to succumb to your normal way of life
STOP enticing me to become like you
STOP trying to break down my view of the world
STOP, everyone just STOP!

Charles River 05.2009

I refuse to line up the collage exactly the way that the view of this picture is supposed to be.

Just like I refuse to live like any other 26-year-old; or to act in the appropriate mature way that I should; or to learn the cruelty of this world; or to play mind games to acknowledge that I was once young.

Because, just like how this collage is made, this is who I am. I refuse to line up the way you, you and you want me to. I refuse!