“What are you going to be when you grow up?”
I find this to be the greatest crime that has been committed against our generation. It is why we reek of this apathy everyone is so concerned about. It is why we are known – so empoweringly – as the “Me Me Me Generation".
So thank you. You fuck.
Anyone who asks this question should be slapped. What on earth are we doing to our youth? First of all when does “grown up” happen? I can see double and triple guessing myself into my grave. I can’t see this complete uncertainty giving up anytime soon.
I’m figuring the closest thing to “growing up” I’ll ever get around to doing is getting comfy in the discomfort of my absolute uncertainty. Start enjoying that stomach-tumbling free-falling-careen into unknowing. Enjoy that mystery of being blind in a maze that doesn’t go anywhere anyhow.
One of the most ironic parts of this, for myself, is the time relation to “growing up”. When exactly is this supposed to happen? First, we think those teen-agers have it together, because… well… they were TEENAGERS. Man they looked so cool. Then we get there and you realize its just a couple years of social confusion and series of strange secretions.
After learning the finer art of antiperspirant and tampons, we start counting the days until that 21st birthday. Because God. That’s when we’re grown up. We’ll be in COLLEGE. And that matters because fuck me, does high school suck. But college? We’ll get to pick all our classes, so even the work part won’t suck. But best of all: no parents, no rules, all party. And we won’t have to lie to get our hands on the shit we’ve been drinking illegally since we were 14 anyway.
Then we get to college and we realize we’re just a large concentration of children in increasingly adult bodies getting away with shit we’ll never have a legitimate opportunity to do again. And ‘school’. Well it still sucks. Worse than that, no one is forcing us to do it. So now, we have to watch our own ass because god forbid we get booted from this fabulous playground. Short of avoiding abject failure, we all know that being grown up, that’s for after college.
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