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Date Posted: 16:15:11 10/13/03 Mon
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In reply to:
Jen
's message, "The Journey" on 20:23:22 10/07/03 Tue
Hey Jen,
I like this one. I've often thought about the same thing and the best way to clear up the fuzzy picture of your youth is to dig up the memories. Look at old pictures, read old school papers, and watch old home videos. You'll get a familiar feeling and perhaps even remember a smell or attitude from way back when. The memory is fleeting, but worth it.
>This is something I wrote about a year and a half ago
>for a column on a friend's web site. There's more to
>it-but I cut and pasted most of it. Why I decided to
>post it here I don't know-but maybe it's something
>someone needs to hear. Plus I think Jim's poetry
>inspired me to post some of the stuff I've written.
>
>At what point does one leave their youth and enter
>adulthood? Is it a sudden change, one that happens
>over night, or is it gradual, one that takes weeks to
>happen? Does it happen at the same point for every
>individual? Is there a time in each of lives when a
>fairie comes, taps our head with her magic wand, there
>is a flash, and wham we are all adults?
>
>Considering we are each separate entities who lead
>very different lives I’d like to think that it happens
>at different points in each of our lives. And this
>transition from youth towards adulthood depends on…?
>That is something I have yet to figure out.
>
>I know when I left my childhood behind and embarked on
>the journey in adulthood but I didn’t even realize the
>change was occurring, and even if I did there would be
>no way for me to stop it. I personally don't believe
>I entered into adulthood too soon, but if I had the
>choice I would have postponed it from happening. It's
>as if I "grew up" overnight, when it fact it was a
>gradual change.
>
>There is no way for us to prevent to inevitability of
>becoming an adult, it just happens and at times we
>don’t give ourself a chance to reach back and grab
>some of that youthful carefree attitude that we
>cherished so much.
>
>It’s as if the moment I entered adulthood I left all
>the wonders and enjoyment of my youth behind and
>didn’t look back. I now wish I could look back and get
>a glimpse of what it's like to be a carefree youth
>again, but it’s too far in my past that I’m afraid I’m
>only able to catch a fuzzy picture of it, one that I
>am unable to decipher.
>
>In the words of Robert Frost, "In three words I can
>sum up everything Ive learned in life: IT GOES ON." So
>while we may still be waiting to receive answers about
>our life, the why's and how's, we can remember that no
>matter what each of our lives are like; it goes on and
>it is a learning experience. One in which we are
>always learning and never know all the answers to the
>many questions that we have. At times these questions
>haunt our being and cause us great pain.
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