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[JoshuaFH]

Today is the last day of my childhood.  Tomorrow I will be a man.  (It remains to be seen whether I'll gain perspective, maturity, wisdom, or something like that that adults are supposed to have.  Most likely not.)

I feel like I'm losing something.  I miss those half-remembered days before I started to go to school, when all I did was play with my cousins, and I was too young to understand how screwed up my family is.  Sometimes I kind of wish I was four again.

I also feel like I'm gaining something.  Experience?  The ability to say I've been around for eighteen years, and an active participant in about fifteen of them?  The right to vote and look at porn?  It's difficult to say.  I can't drink yet, though.

Or maybe I'm not gaining or losing anything.  Maybe I'll just be a day older then I was today, and the only thing that'll change is that the government will consider me to be a person.  *shrug* I'm getting a free cake out of the thing, though, so there's that.

Just you wait, the MOMENT you turn into an adult, all the wisdom and maturity of a thousand years rushes into your head out of nowhere.

Barring that, you might be a normal person.

[Solifuge]

Yeah, I remember when I turned 18. At exactly 8:34 AM, I suddenly knew everything there was to know about renting and owning property, how to balance income and bills, the best ways to court the ladies and/or fellas, and exactly what I wanted to get out of life. It was pretty great.

[RedKing]

"Perhaps a better choice of words would've been, 'Officer I know you're just doing your job, but respectfully I never consent to searches,' not 'bacon doesn't touch my car....'" ~I can't make this stuff up. The facepalms ... they hurt. Why O why did he arrest you....

Okay, admittedly...that's pretty f**king hilarious. Probably less so if you're trying to keep him out of jail, but still...

[Gamerlord]

Yeah, I remember when I turned 18. At exactly 8:34 AM, I suddenly knew everything there was to know about renting and owning property, how to balance income and bills, the best ways to court the ladies and/or fellas, and exactly what I wanted to get out of life. It was pretty great.

The day I turn 18, I'm getting so shitfaced. I don't think I'll know how to add two and two afterwards, let alone any of that.

[kaijyuu]

I'm pretty much the same person I was 10 years ago. Sure, I've gained a lot of knowledge, but that's it. In fact, I'm probably more into "childish" things than I was before. Batman's awesome, now.

[Shakerag]

Today is the last day of my childhood.  Tomorrow I will be a man.  (It remains to be seen whether I'll gain perspective, maturity, wisdom, or something like that that adults are supposed to have.  Most likely not.)

I feel like I'm losing something.  I miss those half-remembered days before I started to go to school, when all I did was play with my cousins, and I was too young to understand how screwed up my family is.  Sometimes I kind of wish I was four again.

I also feel like I'm gaining something.  Experience?  The ability to say I've been around for eighteen years, and an active participant in about fifteen of them?  The right to vote and look at porn?  It's difficult to say.  I can't drink yet, though.

Or maybe I'm not gaining or losing anything.  Maybe I'll just be a day older then I was today, and the only thing that'll change is that the government will consider me to be a person.  *shrug* I'm getting a free cake out of the thing, though, so there's that.

Oh, and here I was thinking you were going to take the plunge and finally put on the ol' bullet ant glove.  Instead, you're just turning 18.  :-/  Well, welcome to the first day of the rest of your life. 

[Shinotsa]

Yeah, I remember when I turned 18. At exactly 8:34 AM, I suddenly knew everything there was to know about renting and owning property, how to balance income and bills, the best ways to court the ladies and/or fellas, and exactly what I wanted to get out of life. It was pretty great.

The day I turn 18, I'm getting so shitfaced. I don't think I'll know how to add two and two afterwards, let alone any of that.

Legally or illegally? When I turned 18 and was filling out my draft card I felt something was incredibly wrong. Then I realized that I wasn't nearly drunk enough to be signing my life away. Then I realized that I legally couldn't be drunk while signing my life away. It was a sad day that made me wish I was still in Canada.

[Solifuge]

C.S. Lewis, regarding childishness and adulthood:

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

[Remalle]

C.S. Lewis, regarding childishness and adulthood:

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

The man's good.

[ChairmanPoo]

No, he's annoying, preachy, and boorish. I hate CS Lewis.

[kaijyuu]

It's a good quote though.


Also relevant:

[Loud Whispers]

No, he's annoying, preachy, and boorish. I hate CS Lewis.

*Metaphor metaphor metaphor*

Nah he's ok

[Aqizzar]

Also relevant:

Thus describes the first four hours on my job every day.  At least it's because I'm falling asleep sitting up, and not just totally inadequate for adulthood.

I don't like seeing those links to the zefrank show thing.  I remember complaining about procrastination and crippling self-criticism, and someone posted one of those videos in response.  That was coming up on three years ago.

Holy shit.

[Realmfighter]

I've read The problem of pain by him and was disappointed by the quality of his arguments.

He non-ironically says that the reason why earth isn't perfect is because omnipotent only covers things that are possible and he did the best he could, after saying charity is needed to be a good Christian. So if human beings can improve others condition and God can't that mean we're more powerful then God right?

[Solifuge]

C.S. Lewis, regarding childishness and adulthood:
-snip-

The man's good.

No, he's annoying, preachy, and boorish. I hate CS Lewis.

Sure, I think he's a bit preachy, but I don't mind preachyness if what's being preached has the seeming of wisdom. Speaking of which...

Thus describes the first four hours on my job every day.  At least it's because I'm falling asleep sitting up, and not just totally inadequate for adulthood.

I don't like seeing those links to the zefrank show thing.  I remember complaining about procrastination and crippling self-criticism, and someone posted one of those videos in response.  That was coming up on three years ago.

Holy shit.

Sorry, I'm going to do it again. This one's new, I promise.

Sometimes I worry that I don't have anything of worth to say of my own, but instead have made of myself a conduit for the thoughts and ideas of others. I don't know why that bothers me as much as it does.