two-hundred & seventy.

[thundersocks]

Comments

[greenworldgirl]

I don't think there is a magic moment when you realize you feel like a woman. Or no, it's being a grown-up. Even after you do those things. I was sure I'd feel like a grown-up when I had my own place, except that didn't. For some people, even after they have kids, they don't really feel grown-up. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because when we're younger, we think grown-ups have the answers and are wise about stuff, and as we grow older we realize we don't really have the answers we thought other people did. Maybe they never did either, who knows.

[thundersocks]

AMBER I AM TRYING TO BE OPTIMISTIC HERE

[greenworldgirl]

WELL. IT IS OPTIMISTIC IN THE SENSE THAT YOU'RE NOT ALONE.

[thundersocks]

I prefer to think of approaching ~womanhood~ as a relative experience that isn't uniform and cut-out for girls to just slide through. You feel it when you feel it.

[oldwillow_brook]

20 sounded like such a big age when I was 10. And then I hit 18 and I kept thinking 20 isn't that far away and yet I still feel like a 12 year old.

I used to think when my sister was 20, she knew all the answers. And at the age of 19, I don't know how the hell I could have though that.

I do have a question. I hope you don't ... get offended. :D

You tend to talk about yourself in the sense that you don't like a lot about yourself. But what I'm curious about is, what do you like? Out of absolute sheer curiousity, what do you like about your self? (i would be mean and tell you not to say nothing but find something but its your choice. :DD)

[thundersocks]

I totally know the feeling. I feel like a fifteen year old every day. For me, it's never quite been about knowing the answers to life's questions, because who ever has those, really? Growing up wasn't something I ever wanted to do.

Pfff like I could get offended by that. ♥ Let's see... physically, I like my lips. They're unique, they're pretty. I like my eyes? My cheekbones, my wrists. Personality-wise, I like that I can make people laugh. I like that I can make people feel secure and help them through rough times. I like that I'm alive.

[seaography]

I think I'll feel like a woman when I will give life, or save a life. I don't know, I feel really primal in a sense that I am eager to protect and defend those I love with everything I've got. Like a rage within me waiting for that moment. I feel like a woman's life is intended to defend and protect even if all is lost. If anyone I cares about gets hurt, or even insulted, I want to shove my fist in their face.

Sadly, I am no where near being the warrior I seek to be. I am no woman at this point. Fuck, I wish there was some school where I could learn the arts of battle. ><

[thundersocks]

Well, you're warrior enough for me. ♥

[sub_textual]

It's weird. I went through a lot of flip-flop between feeling like a girl and a woman up until I was 21 and doing serious business with Japan. But even then, I still had feelings of girlishness and there were times when I didn't really feel grown up, mostly because I think I didn't really want to grow up completely. These days I do feel more grown up, and I think I am a woman now at 24, but I still have moments when I feel like a girl -- mostly when I'm being a Narutard or squeeing over Bleach or some other kind of shiny new anime I get myself into. But asides from those moments of girlishness, I think I'm finally really coming into my own and realizing my own age -- now, more so than ever, since I'm settling into a place I plan on calling home for the next 6 years

[thundersocks]

I think there's always going to be a part of us when we grow up that stays a girl, because we're all young at heart, and that's totally okay. Even now, I know some girls who are much older than me who still fangirl over stuff like anime. Anyway, I'm not ready to start feeling grown up at 20. I'm only like... 2/8ths of my way through my life.

Yes, go for it! Just don't ask me to come to Kannagara, because I think 2 big games is enough on my plate. ;;

[momijizukamori]

I think this comic articulates my point of view. idk, I'm not sure I could say exactly when I really started to feel like an adult, though applying for and recieving a credit card in my own name was a big thing for me. I also feel it when I talk to some of the high schoolers I RP with, and realize how much my point of view on life has matured since then. Still, I'll turn my house into a ball pit if I damn well feel like it ;D

And a totally-not-serious question - WHAT KIND OF COOKIES DO YOU LIKE. Because I firmly believe food makes great presents.

[thundersocks]

Omg I would love an apartment like that. If you fill your place with those, invite me over and I'll fly cross-country, k? But yeah, I know what you mean, particularly about the RPing with high schoolers bit. For a long time, I was used to being the youngest one, or at least one of the youngest, in a game, but then that changed with TST. In a good way, of course. It gets me feeling all nostalgic, and then I remember how I actually miss high school.

I LIKE... anything with chocolate, for reals. You know, there's really no wrong way to go about cookies with me, as long as they don't have raisins in them. Oatmeal chocolate chip are yummy. ♥

[momijizukamori]

Meanwhile I am kind of 'MAN I'M GLAD I'M NOT IN HIGH SCHOOL ANY MORE' but my high school experience was kind of miserable. It's only since moving out that I've started to get myself sorted out.

NOTED. I can't remember, have you moved since I sent you those cookies before, or not?

[thundersocks]

Oh nooo, I hear that from so many people. They were actually some of the funnest (is that even a word) years of my life, depression aside.

I haaaave. Want new address? c: