THE MYSTERIES OF ADULT BEHAVIOUR
When I was a kid I used to listen to songs, or read books, about adult romantic behaviour, and find it so mysterious, so bewitching. I couldn't feel the feelings myself, but I would listen to the songs, or read Hemingway novels, and think about adults, like my Dad, and think about the sadness and blind devotion they must be feeling, and I guess I kind of knew that was coming up for me, and it seemed like something ... something truly immense that would wash over you and engulf you and then you would be in the adult world and you would be transported, not a kid any more, it would be like emerging from a cocoon and being a different being and you wouldn't even remember what it was like before, how could you remember? How could anything be important to you after you'd tasted the adult world? And it was like that ... it's amazing to think you can turn into a whole different species, just within one person, we're lucky that that transformation can happen to us ...