i don't want to grow up.

[Noriaki]

I to have to jump on the "I'm a Toys'R'Us kid" bandwagon. And I mean it.
No less than a week ago, I was in Toys'R'Us looking at Lego (Yes I'm 21!!!), ok it was Mindstorms, and you can do lots of cool Programming stuff with it, but the fact remains, it's lego.



<< does anybodoy go through this? i'm 22 and a senior in college. gonna graduate in a year. i feel like i'm going thru a quarter life crisis or something. i guess i see the end of college symbolizing a real turning point in my life where i will become an "adult" and start working, having family, kids, having to think of retirement, taxes. blah blah blah. i just want things to be simple again like when i was a kid. and i don't want my life to be so routine where i wake up, work, eat, sleep, and start all over again.

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Don't grow up then.

Yeah you'll grad college, and you have to get a job and pay the bills. But you have to find a good company that believes in balance for their employees, so you can get in the right amount of recreation...

Besides that, what says you have to be an Adult? Why do you have to start having a family? Just keep playing with your toys, you're only as old as you feel....sure you have to have a job, but when you were a kid you went to school from 8-3 every day...so now you have to go to work from 8-5 every day...not a big difference.

Yeah I know college is like 20 hours a week, even less for lots of people, but that's only a few years. Through school it was longer, and work will be longer.

So you have two hours less per day for work than you did for school. Other than that, what's to make you change your life style?

Just because society says you should settle down and have 2.5 kids, a white picket fence, and a dog named Chester doesn't mean that's what you have to do if that's not what's going to make you happy.

I can tell you right now there is no where that's what I'm doing when I finish school. I'll find a job and work at it for 8 hours a day, but other than that my spare time usage won't change, and I'm not going to start having kids just because I'm an "adult" then...the hell with that.

When I have a job, all the better, I'll have money so I can actually buy my damn Playstation 2 and Lego Mindstorms!

Grow up? PAH!!!

You're 22...you have LOTS of time to change your mind later and have a family and kids.

 

[Geekbabe]

Pssstt !!!! lemmie tell you a secret, if you play it right a part of you will ALWAYS be a kid. I'm a grandmom now and still get so much enjoyment from such simple things.lol, I look in the mirror sometimes and get shocked, like whoa,when did THAT happen, because in some areas I am still 15 in the head

 

[datalink7]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen
Say it again
Amen

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
And when the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen


Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there


Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight


I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put out dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again


I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender

 

[joohang]

I've been going through that since I was 18.

I've been at school AND working + dealing with bills, food, money, etc. + raising my siblings because my parents have been on the virge of bankruptcy for 2+ years.

So it's not that bad. I really wish I could just concentrate on college for 4 years and take the normal route like most people. Oh well.

I'm now 20 and got very used to this life. It's still better than living in North Korea or Afghanistan. And it's not that bad and I still find plenty of relaxing time.

 

[Juniper]

I'd say put some objectives that you'd want to achieve. Have you watched the friend's episode where Chandler keeps running away because he was freaked out of getting married? Remember what Ross told him? Not to think of the big picture, but to take things one step at a time. Sometimes when I feel freaked out (I'm graduating soon), I think of it. It might be dumb, but it works when you think of the immediate things that you've got to do.

That episode of friends is: The One with Monicaa and Chandler's Wedding part I or II (not sure which one)

Cheer up!! Life's so great!

 

[kpxgq]

im 18 and scared to death of losing my teen status

 

[0beron]

hehe.. weezergirl I am in the exact same boat. I am 22 (I think, at this age the memory starts to go and you've lived so long you loose track of the years ) and a senior in college. All my parents' friends' "little kids" are in high school now and taking SATs. I still remember when they had to look up to talk to me . Anyways, I too have to say that I am beginning to discover that you are only as old as the recommended age range on your toys. So I watch cartoons instead of ER, eat as much milk and cookies as I can, and I never step into a mall without a KB toys.

Remember the eternal wisdom of Finch from American Pie, "Women......Like a fine wine, only get better with age."