Sweet Sixteen

It Won't Last Much Longer

from JoeUser Forums
I don't know about sweet, but I'm sixteen; I was 16 last year April 15th. So, obviously, I'm almost 17. I have this phobia, I don't know why, but I dislike, with a passion, getting older. Maybe it's because I look at all that I didn't accomplish in the last year. Now, I'm not one to cry; really, I don't cry very much at all and usually when I do it's because I'm terribly tired of pissed off royally. But last year I cried because I was turning 16, and I liked being 15. Wow, I'm laughing at myself as I think about crying over it.

But, seriously, I don't know why it's so hard for me. I should look at it as how amazing it was to live another year, but instead I see it as getting closer to the day I die. I look at 14 and 15 year olds who can do lots of things better than me and wish I were still that age. Maybe it's because if I can do something as equally well as a 12 year old, they're still much better, because they're younger. I know that's very selfish, but that might be part of it. Being 16 is good, and I wish I could stay that way for quite a bit longer. I haven't done much with my life, and sometimes I feel like I'm just here. I want to make an impact, so that when I'm 30 I can look back at every year and point to the many things I've accomplished.

Ahh, well, I hear 17 is good too. Every year that goes by seems to get shorter, though.

Sarah
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Egads! You're sixteen! You can drive!! There is nothing better than driving.

Anyhow, you're freaking YOUNG.

Old is EIGHTY, not sixteen. Not nineteen (that's me, I'm a tender child myself!!), not even thirty, even though I feel that thirty is old. It isn't.

Think of it this way. You probably have seventy years ahead of you. Think of how slowly these last sixteen years have gone by. Think of how much longer seventy years will take. And think of how many more things a thirty year old can do that you can't.

Being twelve sucks, being thirty probably rocks.

~Anne!!!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thanks, Anne, I'm feeling better already. :o)

Cheers
☼Sarah
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nah, I think getting older really does stink. You begin to realize more and more that the world isn't fair, and you begin to realize more and more that you're not so innocent.

I feel like the older I get, the more I lose all those traits I love in myself.

I turned 18 in November, and I'm frick'n scared to death of life man.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Trinitie

p.s. Anne, being twelve rocked!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's a thought you may not appreciate.

Each year SEEMS to pass more quickly, because as a portion of your conscious life, each year is a smaller and smaller fraction of the total. And at the end of the ride, unfortunately, what we all confront is our mortality. I'm fifty, and I've grappled with this since I was your age. There is no answer. There is nothing that will change the fact that, being mortal, we come into this world for a brief ride; moreover, just when things might seem to begin making sense, that's right. Time's up! But you are so far ahead of all the people who you think of as "better." You are thinking about life, making an impact, living each moment for all it's worth. That's the best you can hope for, I kid you not. Be open to the joy of the moment, the ecstatic wonder of each eternal second. Time doesn't fly when you're having fun, it flies when you're not paying attention. Good luck, happy ides of April.

One good thing is that you offer people a reason to celebrate when many folks feel they're sending checks to a bunch of thugs!!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Time doesn't fly when you're having fun, it flies when you're not paying attention. "

In my opinion, the perception of time as rapid is the result of routine. The more "different" a day is, the slower it will go, because the memories are not so easily discarded as statistics. When you're a couple dozen years old and you have a job that you go to every day for the same hours, it's not hard to imagine why a decade can pass so fast you hardly even felt you lived it.

Live to the extreme. You can live longer in twenty years than many have in eighty. God bless.

~Dan
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Don't compare yourself to others! Just find your interests, do the best and be the best that you can, and life will be well-lived!