Jan 25, 2010 02:42
When you've grown up too fast, you start to notice the people around you changing. Sometimes you like who they are after, sometimes you don't. It's not that something is wrong with them, it's just that it takes you a little while to realize that there was a time in your life where you changed, and you're not the same person you used to be. You think that you've matured, "grown up," and you assume that by a certain age that everyone else has. So you feel alienated and alone when you see it happen to other people, thinking that you've missed out on some big part of your youth that was taken away from you because you had to grow up too fast.
I've known who I was since I was 17, and every day since then has just been me learning more about that person, gaining a better understanding of myself and my relation to the world.
To see people (older than I am) only just now figuring it out , it's frustrating. Frustrating that I feel I was robbed of those extra years of the freedom of youth, and frustrating that it's taken so many people this damn long to finally figure it all out.