Life is generally a scam. You spend your first few years soiling yourself, the next few playing with yourself, and the rest slowly killing yourself. You suffer through your childhood and slog through your youth, rushing to get to that vaunted thing they call adulthood because it looks really cool.
From where you’re standing as a kid, adults have all the fun. They get to wake up whenever they want, they get to go places and laugh loudly with other adults, and they get to do those secret things they don’t like to talk about, things which elicit funny noises from the bedroom. It’s like the Illuminati, and you cannot wait to join.