should i feel any older?
In 1 hour, 55 mins and 30 seconds, i will officially turn 18 years old... and then what? should i feel any older?
will the messages that i get from my friends and family signify my entry into the age of maturity? should the start of a new day make me any more responsible than i am now? why should anyone have to wait for a certain day in the calendar before they finally realize that they are "eighteen"? is it really that big a deal?
Age is just a number
Officially turning 18 shouldn't be as big a thing as people make it out to be, because it isn't. I'm turning 18 tomorrow, and i am not the least bit excited. Turning older isn't decided by the 365 days that we go through in the calendar, nor by our physical appearance. I have seen 16 year old people who are trapped in the body of a 20 year older or vice versa, and it doesn't seem to bother them.
Age is measured by experience... experience in life, experience in love, experience in friendships, and so on.. i have been through alot of things these past 3 years to last me a lifetime of story-telling, yet i am only, for now, 17. I do not brag about knowing all the answers to problems my peers are faced with, but i do know that i will have my own views about everything based on what i have gone through. i have done many things in my life that i had never dreamed of doing, some i am proud of and others i despise, but i show no signs of letting up the lifestyle that i have created for myself. A lifestyle in which i control who and what i will and have become.
I am now faced with the dilemma of "growing up"... do i really want to?... or have i already? the moment i decided to stop living in my dream world and saw reality for what it really was, i grew up... being the oldest in the group, it was always easy to hand out advice, but i only recently discovered after my own problems, that it was hard to take that advice and put it to good use...
Like i said earlier, Age is measured by experience...you can only be as old as you CHOOSE to be... think about it...
So again, In 1 hour, 55 mins and 30 seconds, i will officially turn 18 years old... and then what?
should i feel any older?
will the messages that i get from my friends and family signify my entry into the age of maturity? should the start of a new day make me any more responsible than i am now? why should anyone have to wait for a certain day in the calendar before they finally realize that they are "eighteen"? is it really that big a deal?
Age is just a number
Officially turning 18 shouldn't be as big a thing as people make it out to be, because it isn't. I'm turning 18 tomorrow, and i am not the least bit excited. Turning older isn't decided by the 365 days that we go through in the calendar, nor by our physical appearance. I have seen 16 year old people who are trapped in the body of a 20 year older or vice versa, and it doesn't seem to bother them.
Age is measured by experience... experience in life, experience in love, experience in friendships, and so on.. i have been through alot of things these past 3 years to last me a lifetime of story-telling, yet i am only, for now, 17. I do not brag about knowing all the answers to problems my peers are faced with, but i do know that i will have my own views about everything based on what i have gone through. i have done many things in my life that i had never dreamed of doing, some i am proud of and others i despise, but i show no signs of letting up the lifestyle that i have created for myself. A lifestyle in which i control who and what i will and have become.
I am now faced with the dilemma of "growing up"... do i really want to?... or have i already? the moment i decided to stop living in my dream world and saw reality for what it really was, i grew up... being the oldest in the group, it was always easy to hand out advice, but i only recently discovered after my own problems, that it was hard to take that advice and put it to good use...
Like i said earlier, Age is measured by experience...you can only be as old as you CHOOSE to be... think about it...
So again, In 1 hour, 55 mins and 30 seconds, i will officially turn 18 years old... and then what?
should i feel any older?