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Subject: The Journey Author: Jen [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:23:22 10/07/03 Tue Author Host/IP: ool-18be3c94.dyn.optonline.net/24.190.60.148 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. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date I know what you mean. Adam 16:15:11 10/13/03 Mon