My Birthday Is Coming Up
That whole 18 year old thing is coming. April 6th in fact. Funky.
You know, when I was a kid, the age I most wanted to be was 12. 12 sounded like such a cool age. A big 12-year old. 11 sounds young, and 13 is always the early stupid teen age. Teenybopper? Bleah. 14 sounded pretty cool, just because it wasn't 13, but 12 was always the best. Well, in my mind anyway. The other age that I though sounded cool was 15. 15 has a big age sound to it. I mean, you're halfway through your second decade of life! That's pretty big.
I didn't think that 16 sounded that cool either. I don't really know why. It just has a wimpy sound to it.
I never thought about 17 much because I had it in my mind that I wasn't going to be 17. It's not that I was going to die, it was just that it was an age for other people. 17 is the older teenager age. I spent 16 years of my life being just that. I couldn't see it happen, because I guess I didn't think that I was ever really going to grow up. And now look. In less than a month I'll be 18.
18 is also one of those ages that don't really happen. Yet it will soon happen, and I will be happy. The only way to stop aging is to die, and I don't want to die. It's not my time. If I ever know ahead of time when it is, I'll let you know. If not, oh well!
posted by Val at 3/09/2002 12:31:00 PM
