Ahh, the inevitable truth...

[smileygirl90]

Well, it's time to say it. I guess there's no more going around it. The truth has to come out some time. Here it is. Are you ready? Here i go: I am getting older. >>gasp!<< Yes, my friends, the time has come for me to admit to this hideous and cruel truth to myself. One minute you're here, thinking how good it feels to be youthful and healthy and alive, not burdened with the "adult problems" that everyone says will await us just beyond the horizon. Then, before you know it, it's time to be "responsible" and "independent". All of a sudden, you're looking for jobs and wondering how you're going to pay for your gas this week. It is the ultimate irony: we spend our childhoods wishing we could be older, more free like our older siblings or cousins or friends' sisters or whatever. Then, we finally get to an age where we embrace our youth and our lovely childhood and the rest of the world bitterly shoves us into the cold light of reality. Isn't that dismal for you? But all is not lost. If we are lucky, we have a younger sibling with which to live vicariously through. And now we can be the ones who can say those trite phrases that no one listens to, like "enjoy this childhood while you've got it, because you'll want it back someday!" or "you think these are problems? Just wait a few years!" Why do people always say that? Is the concept of growing older and older and losing your childhood not scary enough to a kid without some idiot adult telling you that all you have to look forward to is wrinkles and (bonus!) a heap of problems we can't even begin to know how to deal with? No wonder suicide rates in teenages are through the roof. That's when it finally hits us that we've come to the end of the innocence phase of our existence and the only parts of our life left are the ones that are consumed by the "really bad adult problems that make you want to die".
Also, on a side note, i would like to point out that even though now i am apparently officially a non-kid, isn't it funny that i still have silly and ridiculous thoughts like "I wonder what George is doing right now, this very instant" instead of thinking about the "adult situations" like world peace and how to stop global hunger and--what else?-- oh yeah, how i'm going to pay for gas this week. :/