Solipsus

Oh my, I KNOW! It’s so weird to go on Facebook, and see people I knew in Jr. High with little children! I always suspected I would make it to age 18, but beyond that never occurred to me. Now, I am 19, which is a fact I often forget. I can’t imagine how I will feel on April 8th, when I turn 20. It is just unfathomable to me!

SCARY!

(by the way - update your age in your sidebar)

I know what you mean Ben, it’s scary thinking we’ll be choosing what to do with the rest of our lives (in my case) in the next few years! Good luck with everything though. :D

It *is* scary to get older. Like, all of a sudden, you’re supposed to start taking more responsibility and consider the future seriously… I’d rather stay young forever!

Those are scary thoughts! But exciting too. It can’t be all THAT bad or difficult if everyone manages to do it. The door is open to big possibilities. You can do ANYTHING you want! Instead of looking at it with trepidation, look at it as an exciting new adventure! (At least sometimes if you can’t do it all the time.)

I know the feeling. I am 21 and I still feel like a teenager, not an adult. Although I have rent, bills and loans to pay off it still doesn’t make me feel older. ALL of my friends that I went to High School with, have at least 1 child, I am the only one who is childless. Heck my 19 year old sister just had a baby. I always thought I would be the first too, since I was 16 I had always wanted a baby.
When I turned 18 I thought wow I am an adult, but right now it still feels the same. My brother is going to be 15 in March yet I still remember him as that cheeky little 10 year old. My sister is 13 in one month and in her first year of HS, and I just look at her and go WOW you have grown so much older, then think to myself, shit that means I have gotten older too, yet I feel the same.
I’m terrified of getting older but not feeling older. I don’t want to be the 18 year old stuck in the 35 yr old body. I want to *feel* like an adult.

Argh, scary, scary thoughts. Everything’s put in perspective, and you just realise that as much as you’ve revelled in living inside a sheltering coccoon for the last seventeen years, the world suddenly seems infinitely more vast … ! Bah. I wish the transition were smoother, sometimes.

Guess I’ll be feeling similarly when I turn 18 in less than six months …

Oh, and it’s only downhill from here… but I admit adulthood has it’s perks :)

You know. . . I didn’t feel like an adult either until just recently. I tried the adult-activities. Still felt and was perceived as a kid-in-adult-skin or whatever. It’s really really daunting. . . adult responsibilities and the like. But it’s all worth it eventually. Good luck to you on your journey :D