Growing Up Growing up is by no means a bad thing. It allows us to make a 1)__________ in the world, to find out who we are, and to live the life we 2)_________ as children. We dreamed of growing up when we rested our young heads on our downy pillows and looked up with 3)________ at the glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to our ceiling, wondering what the world 4)_________ beyond our own home, beyond the world that had been so meticulously created for us. Yet upon growing up, we find that reality often 5)_____________ those very dreams. We find that the 6)_______ of growing up is perhaps less lovely than we’d envisioned. We find that the only thing we really want back is our youth and our 7)___________ , and the cruel irony is that these are the very things that will never 8) ______.