children...

[purrdy]

i just wondered....when do you stop being a child and start being an adult?




i wonder this because a lot of emphasisis is put on being grown up and behaving like a responsible adult blah blah bla..etc...

BUT


i love to feel the awe and newness of life

i love to laugh so my tummy hurts

i love to be silly

i like silly 'childish' fluffety things


does this meake me a nutter?



i want to keep my inner child alive...not stuff it down....

i can be grown up and responsible too but with that mischievus child lurking around to keep my spirits up



healing childhood hurts is taking responsibilty for ones feelings and thoughts .... i guess?

[Chicago Patty]

I love you Kenni....I love your spirit....I think all men will be boys and
all girls will be princesses....until the day they die.

[Janeeyre]

Purrdy, I've wondered this exact thing for years!!

When I was a child, I thought I'd feel "grown up" as soon as I became a teenager........

nope

Then I thought I'd feel grown up when I graduated high school and went to college.......

nope

How about when I graduated college? When I got married?

.....didn't happen.

Well, "SURELY," I thought, "I'll become an adult when I have children of my own."

Not so much.

Hmmmmm......
I suppose I am an "adult", but you know what? Inside, I still feel like the same person I was 20 years ago, only with more responsibility, insight, and experience. (Of course, there's the outside.....where'd all this "extra skin" come from? And the grey hair??)

I hope I don't become a crabby old lady 20 years from now.


(Of course, sometimes I already act like a "crabby old lady!")

[BehindBlueEyes]

I am glad that I am not the only one who ponders this.

But I don't have the answer, I feel the exact same....

[BrandiK]

I think one is an adult when one can reconzie the joy of what they are experiancing, but also carry a level of self-responsability (an adult LOVES treats, but knows they must also have some veggies ... however, and adult also LOVES veggies too lol)

What do you think? I think the kids don't appreciate the innocence and joy so much as we do.

[purrdy]

well theres an apect of me that is very much the hurt child...and right now im angryi want to scream! i want to cry and whinge because i cant get my own way..now the adult here has to step in and tell that unsure frightened little girl its going to be ok..no matter what happens it will be ok ill be ok and i have my family here to look after me......im ok right now.....im ok....