It is a beautiful fall rainy day in Minnesota. Currently, I'm reading Harry Potter and eating Barnum's Animal Crackers, also known as "childhood in a box." When I was little, my sister and I only got to eat these crackers on very special occasions: most often when my mom dragged us to the furniture store and wanted us to be quiet and behave. Back then, my lion crackers chased her giraffe crackers across expensive sofas and leather chairs (and naturally I always won.) My sister is currently in Atlanta so here I sit, making my lion cracker chase my giraffe cracker across the top of my book. Soon after they both met an untimely death... in my mouth. Yum.
Have I mentioned that I'm 20?
In a few short weeks I will turn 21, the magical age in American society where you celebrate your "adult" status by getting rip-roaringly drunk and making a few profoundly stupid decisions. Technically I became an adult when I turned 18 but recently I've started to wonder, "Where did my childhood go?" When you're little, all you want is to grow up and act like an adult. Now that I am one, all I want to do is play with my animal crackers and not get weird looks from my parents.
Sometimes, I look at little kids playing with their parents and I start to wonder - what kind of adult will they turn out to be? Will they be shy? Kind? Rude? Will they get into drugs, alcohol, and crime? Will they be an excellent student? I saw the movie "The Parent Trap" the other day and I had trouble enjoying it for two reasons: first, it's not a very good movie, and second because Lindsay Lohan was such an adorable little girl who has turned into such a train-wreck of an adult. What happened?
There are some perks to being an adult - one of them being a drivers license. Instead of jumping through the huge puddles created by all this rain, I'm going to drive through them. Besides, high-speed puddle driving is better than wet, dirty clothes any day. I'm off to go make some trouble.
I guess I'm still a kid after all.
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love this entry. so true.
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