Grow Up!
Written by Sophie on Monday, September 25, 2006
I’ve often been told to grow up, get a life, be more mature, be tidier, all those things. I never know how grown up I should be because a lot of grown ups are too serious and wierd…especially the grown ups at “revival meetings” trying to be cool for the teenagers. It makes me think of a couple of songs, the first one by Simple Plan.
I don’t want to be told to grow up, and I don’t want to change, I just want to have fun
and Five Iron Frenzy
I’m twenty-nine years old, still wearing the wallet chain, like I was twenty-eight. I’m wearing my Vans right now, so high school kids will think that I can skate. I’ve got a degree in science, yet shaking my fists in defiance.
Anyway, I’m not cliché, I hardly own any ties. I may be old, but at least I’m not like all those other old guys.
I’m watching MTV, for fashion tips, so I can say, that I saw it first. Backwards hat, tattoos, and goatee say I’m cool, just like Fred Durst. I pay almost all my bills, I sleep on a futon still.
Where is the balance? How far should I go? Should I have aspirations? Should I just trundle along in an effort for a nice calm life? Many people tell me they think I’m 17, that I look 17, but then just as many people mistake me for a 25 year old. I had a friend when I was home and she lived in the sort of flat where there was a guy who was sorta acting like her dad. He’d grounded her in an attempt to try and get her to grow up but he let me take her to a cafe for a drink. He said he saw I had a cell phone, wallet, a car, I must be mature.
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How you look or what you are into never proves or disproves maturity. I’m in my 30’s and even people who have known me for years think of me as being much younger. Those who don’t know me think I’m still in high school. Yet I’ve lived on my own for many years, held regular jobs, paid my bills, been mature.
I have always held to the concept that one should not grow up. Just simply grow.
Oh, by the way, FIF rocks.
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1 On 25 September, 2006, Sean said:
Life isn’t a song. You can’t judge someone’s maturity by what they own. If being grounded would make a difference, I’d have grounded you, no internet access, until you got your head out of yer butt {grin}
But that’s not how it works.
How far should you go? In what direction?
Why should you NOT have aspirations?