Fountain of Youth
Posted in Rants on February 7th, 2010 | 7 Comments »I have been finding it more and more time consuming to update my blog. I love all the comments from the new visitors I’m getting all of the sudden, it makes me feel so popular, but then it takes me more and more time commenting back, that by the time I get done, I don’t have time to actually post!
So it makes me wonder where I’ll be this time next year! Out of curiosity, how much time do you spend commenting/posting each week?
With all the work I have to do these days, it makes me reflect back on my childhood more and more. I was a stupid kid. Well, not stupid, naive. Up till I moved to Tennessee in 7th grade, I really had no concept of the world. Which is stupid, since we took a road trip every summer across half the country to go visit my mom’s side of the family. But that didn’t really register in my young mind. My whole world consisted of my neighborhood and the few roads that drove to school, to the store, and to my friends’ houses. And that was the world. No one else existed. Which is funny because we had a map of the world hanging in the hallway and I would stare at it every day looking for funny names of cities. It just amazes me that the amount of people in the world didn’t sink in until middle school. We’ve started talking about mental development in my education class, so I’m starting to see that it’s normal and most kids think this way, but its still embarrassing to think that I was supposed to be the smart one!!
All I would do was go to school, come home, and ride over to my neighbor’s house on my bike to play with her nintendo. I was so jealous, I wanted one of my own! Mario was the shizz, and we would play for hours, all the while listening to local radio station, streaming Brittney Spears and N*Sync to our young ears, until I had to go home for dinner. I would then go upstairs, do my homework, then play with my beads or yarn while watching Disney channel, then fall asleep and start the whole thing over again.
It amazes me the luxuries that kids have these days. And I’m not even old! I’m 19!! But looking at the cool games you can play with an xbox 360, and the interactiveness of the wii, and how you can play your playstation 3 with your psp, if I understood that correctly, I’m freakin jealous!!! I got ripped off in my childhood!
And then there are the clothes girls are wearing these days. I mean, dude, they’re mini adults! What happened to being a kid? Why does an 8 year old girl NEED high heels and tube tops? I wore leggings and T shirts till 6th grade. I didn’t even have a purse till high school. Now looking in the window of Limited Too while in the mall, it amazes me how much things have changed so quickly. I hear girls asking other girls if they look fat, and they’re 8 and look anorexic! What type of impact does that have on their development into adulthood? And the music they listen to. Granted, the pop of my day wasn’t exactly clean, but neither was it so explicit. When little girls know every word of Lady Gaga’s Love Game song and have no clue what they’re singing about, it kind of worries me. But that’s just me, wishing kids could stay young forever.
What differences, if any, have you noticed from your childhood and kids today? What did you do as a kid for fun?
And it was nice to have someone else pick up the tab at the restaurant, lol.



