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chemikal

"No you can't has cheeseburger."

Aug 29, 2009 01:49

Sometimes you sit around on a Friday night with nothing notable to do for no good reason other than lack of motivation and wonder why you couldn't be as crazy and outgoing as the cool kids. But I wondered - when I tell people about my random collection of memories if it sounds like my life has been some crazy party during a large portion of it ( Read more... )

work, childhood, life, growning up

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dire August 29 2009, 14:50:03 UTC

(oops, sorry for that weird keyboard mashing - i was trying to clean my keyboard and the screen popped up.)

i'm with you here -- being An Adult, Grown Up, juggling responsibilities which means you have less time to waste (and i love having time to waste). statistically, the 20s are supposed to be your most unhappy years because they're the most uncertain. you're between being fully independent and stable and emerging from your dependency on your parents. it's funny since i always thought the 20s were this ideal peak where you're at the prime of your youth, raw and old enough to have experience, but young enough to be fearless. definitely not the case, i've found. and i've known some people my age who basically WERE grown up early because they lacked parental support, and they've had to be so strong.

inside i think everyone still carries who they used to be...

chemikal August 29 2009, 15:09:19 UTC

On a weird tangent to this - even adults act like they're in high school in the work place. I don't think we grow out of our current mentalities until we're fairly old. I swear old people can be the most laid back and understanding lot of our society. It's just a perspective that's damned near impossible for me to adopt any time soon.

dire August 29 2009, 18:03:31 UTC

i completely agree. you often come across adults where you're taken aback because you feel so much older than they behave. and even then there are people who fight their age, because they can't believe how much time has passed. i'm not ready to be old, but i can't say i enjoy being patronized either. but as i get older i definitely have moments of "i was so naive at X age. i was so young a year ago"... do you?

and it's tough because it's like you regress if you get TOO old. people lose respect for you because your bones are getting weary.

chemikal August 29 2009, 18:18:51 UTC

Yeah, there are definitely extremes in either direction ( ... )

kina August 29 2009, 19:26:03 UTC

I won't ever grow up if you don't :)

chemikal August 30 2009, 04:40:23 UTC

gotta catch up first. >:]

m_banu August 31 2009, 03:42:02 UTC

Sometimes you sit around on a Friday night with nothing notable to do for no good reason other than lack of motivation and wonder why you couldn't be as crazy and outgoing as the cool kids.

Not anymore. The cool kids grew up to be aging hipsters, or died young of their own stupidity.

But I wondered - when I tell people about my random collection of memories if it sounds like my life has been some crazy party during a large portion of it.

It always sounds cooler in hindsight, when the story glosses over the hard parts. :) Today's avante-garde ideas were produced by yesterday's social lepers, forced to hack out their own world when they realized there wasn't a place for them in the world that they knew. Being ahead of the curve is not as glamorous as people make it out to be. :P

I feel like there's always so much further to go to even be called anything remotely close to an expert.The top of the mountain is lost in the clouds. The higher you climb, the further your standards raise. It's important to remember that most everyone else ( ... )