Growing up Sucks!
Think back to the day that you were a young, wide-eyed child. The world seemed amazing with all that it had to offer, but more than anything, you wanted to be a grown up, all big and responsible. All of your mentors would tell you to “enjoy being young”, and you would completely disregard their advice. It was “cool” to be a grown up, but little did you know that you should’ve taken their advice and slowed down the whole “growing up” process.
I can remember back to the days that I had no cares in the world; I wasn’t concerned about anything except for food, playing, and sleeping. I didn’t care what anyone thought of me; I acted how I wanted, not afraid to be “uncool”. I didn’t care about how my hair looked, about make-up, if I “looked fat” in an outfit, or even what boys thought, boys were icky! School wasn’t an issue as long as you held your tongue and applied yourself to the subject, there weren’t piles of homework, and the only drama was who was going to play with you at recess.
Periodically throughout elementary school my teachers would ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up. For the longest time I was determined to grow up and be a princess! Many of my classmates would choose things such as astronauts, superheroes’, cowboys, and racecar drivers. Of course throughout the years our teachers told us to make choices that were actually attainable, choices that were based on reality.
By about the time I grew up to be a 12 year old, I felt that I was now a “grown up” and that I was mature, I was a pre-teen! I would constantly tell my father that I was old enough to do this, that, and everything that I wanted to, because I was a grown up pre- teen! However, this was when I started to lose my whimsical, childhood dreams. I knew that it wasn’t practical to become a princess any more. I started to look at post secondary schooling, and I thought that I had it all figured out by age 14. Little did I know that I would still be changing my mind for the next three years despite my determined efforts to stay focused on one profession, to prove to adults that I had my mind made up.