Oh Grow Up Already

[Miriel]

I'm gonna miss you, LevLev Levie.

[rubah]

It's a slower transition than you think. I suggest you embrace the process, because you don't have a choice. Once you embrace this inevitability, that will be the turning point you seek, and you will be less concerned with this process and you'll enjoy it more.

Drinking helps.

neel, it doesn't bother me very much, it's just that I'm starting to notice that it goes on xD

no drinkz plz yet.

[Slade]

I sure as hell miss being a kid. So whenever it is appropriate or possible, I act kiddy. It brings the two sides together, the mature and the um....not so mature? Heh

[Coop]

my bodie has grown but my mind has not

[Anaisa]

Ive always been grown up. I wanted to grow up and live alone as soon as possible. I acheived my goal at fifteen. I hated childhood, I felt it was a total waste of time for me. And I hate it when people's personalitys change, and they become dull as they get older, and their opinions change. They say its because they've matured now, "well once you get older and you've got a lot of responsibilities......" what a load of rubbish, there is a difference between being mature, and being a boring sod. And then we have the nonconformists who turn conformist, and its "as you get older your opinions change" I will never become conformist, I would shoot myself before I allowed that to happen. I have responsibilities, but im never going to become dull and boring because of it. Your personality can remain intact, whilst still being mature. Im mature, but ill never be dull.

[Psydekick]

Who says you have to act grown up in the Army?

No one!

[Loony BoB]

I agree that you aren't a real adult until you can support yourself. However, being an adult is the end of the coming of age, not the start of it.

I'd say no person has really started their 'coming of age' until they get a job and keep it, and start saving up for things outside material things, be it travel or insurance or a flat or university or whatever. I always thought I was growing up and maturing - and I was - before then. But in retrospect, getting a job on my own and taking on that kind of responsibility was most certainly the start of my real coming of age. I was making my life decisions and saving up my own money for them, I was being given responsibility at both home and work, I was taking control of my life and really doing something with myself after all those years of preparation for such things.

[Psydekick]

I just act a kid the whole time