05-06-2008, 06:59 PM
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Big Damn Hero
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Re: Why, back in my day...
I'm 20, so I guess I qualify as being part of the upper age group here.
But I oddly enough never really wanted to be older. I didn't want to stay young either, and certainly benefits like being able to stay out late were desirable when I was in high school, but for the most part I was, and still am, content just living day-to-day rather than looking into the future and hoping that it will somehow be better than the present.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that by the time I was sixteen I was pretty much doing whatever I wanted to, staying out as late as I wanted to, and other stuff without consequence. Which isn't to say that my parents didn't care, more that they didn't find out about what I was up to. I had to lie to them from time to time, but it was more underexaggerating the truth ("I only had one or two drinks" instead of the more true "I drank the better part of a bottle of rum").
At this point...I like the freedom of living away from home while I'm at university, setting my own boundaries and determining my own schedule, but it's pretty much the same way when I'm at home. There's some conditions to being home, but nothing I mind doing to the point where I wish to avoid being there.
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