I know everybody changes drastically as the years go by, the transition from awkward ten year old sprouting boobs to constantly sleep deprived teenager is a big one. Everybody harps on about just how much they've changed, grown up, matured, what have you, but I wanna know in what ways you haven't. Because you haven't changed all that much if you think about it. You look different, you feel different, but you are all in all the same person.
I was thinking the other day about how excited my older brother, sister and I would get when Dad told us he was coming to visit. We were all under ten and hardly ever saw our father (still don't.) so when he announced he'd be coming to visit us in the weekend we'd be giggly. We'd get to excited about seeing him, what we could tell him, how we could impress him, you know. We'd even be so excited that the day he was coming to get us we'd be so anxious of his arrival that we wouldn't be able to eat breakfast. We'd scrape it down the sink and sit on the doorstep smiling like idiots just waiting for his crusty old car to roll around the corner. Sometimes it never did. We'd just think he was running late, he always is. Hours would pass, and he wouldn't turn up.
Just last weekend my Dad told us he was coming to visit. I'm 16 now, my sister almost 20 and my brother 17. Now we weren't so excited we couldn't hold down a bowl of cereal, but we were so excited that we were all up by 10a.m. anticipating his arrival. He's always late so after about an hour we begin to wonder, is he really coming? I look around at my siblings and see the nervous looks on their faces as they glance at the clock every two seconds. I realise we haven't changed all that much, and it's been over 10 years, so who's to say Dad has? Normally he'll turn up, but on those days he didn't, it was awful. It still is. He never turned up last weekend, and didn't bother to let us know he wasn't until Sunday evening. We were meant to see him on Saturday.
So, whoever reads this, comment. Tell me in what ways, after thinking about it, are you the same as the smiling, toothless 6 year old you see in all those class photos? I know I haven't changed all that much, the above is just an example.
I still sleep with my Garfield teddy I got when I was 4.
Your turn.
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lol. i still keep making the same mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI think no one really changes, it's just the way you deal with things that change.
ReplyDeleteI have a few friends who are in their 20's and still can act like 12 year olds. Their interests are different but the passion is the same.
Me and my neighborhood friends used to organize little parties when we were 8 year old kids, we put on some music and would sing along, doing karaoke and stuff.
Now we go to shows together, sing along with our favorite tunes, instead of limonade we drink beer (The drinking age is 16 in the Netherlands, except for everything that has more then 15% of alcohol, then it's 18). We didn't change, just our interests did