Saturday May 30, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Not a smooth transition
The year of my 21st birthday, my days started moving a lot faster. Rather than each day having the potential to be something wonderful within itself, they all started clumping together as a means to achieve something in the future.
Until my 21st birthday, I could go through a hundred emotions in one week. I could wake up feeling enthusiastic, progress to annoyed, and go through depressed, stupid, and jubilant in one afternoon. Then, suddenly, I had weeks of “good” and “fine” and “normal.”
Was that adolescence ending?
It’s like life is becoming all of the things English teachers say to avoid when trying to become an interesting and descriptive writer.
The year of my 21st birthday, my days started moving a lot faster. Rather than each day having the potential to be something wonderful within itself, they all started clumping together as a means to achieve something in the future.
Until my 21st birthday, I could go through a hundred emotions in one week. I could wake up feeling enthusiastic, progress to annoyed, and go through depressed, stupid, and jubilant in one afternoon. Then, suddenly, I had weeks of “good” and “fine” and “normal.”
Was that adolescence ending?
It’s like life is becoming all of the things English teachers say to avoid when trying to become an interesting and descriptive writer.
The older I get, the faster time moves. It’s bizarre. I don’t really remember a clear transition like you do, but every once and a while I am in awe that it’s already half way through 2009 and then I feel like my grandpa. :)
I know right?! It’s like, before I turned 21 I could still get away with being indecisive and childish. Now it’s like I have to have A Plan in place and people ask me all the time; So, what are you planning for the future?
And I’m all, dude, I just want to LIVE and stuff.
So yeah.
PS – love your website!!
Yup, life gets more normal.
But you learn more interesting ways of describing normality. Adjectives are your friend.
I tried to comment on your Bowling Pin Art Thing, but… I could not. Alas.
I too have a bowling pin! It’s pride of purchase on my ‘table of oddities’. A friend salvaged it for me after he was fired. It’s amazing just how big they are, eh? They also make the perfect giant-sized clubs. The grip around the tapered head… Lovely.
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I know what you mean. For me it happened at 25. Consider the possibility, though, that you’re just in transition and time could slow down again.
I think for me, 21 was the year I was supposed to “get serious” about my life and my career decisions, which is mega overwhelming and by no means an easy transition, but I look back on it now and I think I feel like I figured it all out…kinda. ;)
Yup, growing up is kind of…how can I describe it…consistent? Monotonous? But at the same time, it gets better, its gets more complete, it gets more whole. I like it so far :)
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Time is always moving too fast.
…unless I’m stuck in traffic.
I’d really have to agree with you on this post. It does seem like days move so much faster as we grow older. Sometimes 24 hours is not even enough to get done the things I need to do. tsk tsk… How I wish, I could go back to my childhood days when life was a bit less stressful.
add in the intense pressure that comes after 21… and its sad.
I waited my whole life to be grown, and now it’s a struggle to find my bliss every day!
I wanted to be 21 so badly when I was younger just so I could get into all the cool bars. Now I don’t even get carded when I go out…
I find that with each passing year, the year goes faster. For instance, I can’t believe it’s June already.
All I can suggest is that you remember to do things every day, instead of just looking towards what happens next.
The days definitely move faster and you appreciate the slow ones. The trick is to not let them fly by trying to achieve what you think you are supposed to by certain milestones. Just live.
“It’s like life is becoming all of the things English teachers say to avoid when trying to become an interesting and descriptive writer.”
Best. Sentence. EVER.
I wish I had appreciated my young when I WAS young. Man!
That’s why you need to hit the breaks every once in a while and take in what is going around you.
Oh and a person is always young at heart only if they want to be. Trust me, it’s true. :)
ugh, exactly. i just turned 21 this year and it’s already june! what the hell happened!?
Time speeds up and slows down at random times for me. And I have no control over when and where.
That’s probably more because I’m crazy though.
I’m 19 and it wasn’t until recently that I started going through 5 billion different emotions a day. I was very much unlike most angsty teens throughout most of my teens. I almost can’t wait to just have good, fine and normal weeks instead of laughing and totally loving life one second and bawling my eyes out a minute later.
Then again, maybe I’m just PMSing