I am coming to terms with adulthood. I spent last week organizing my piles of old kodak photos and saw the past decade of my life- the highlights of my childhood- in thirteen hours. What a ride.
I got a quote from a book:
"My mother often explained to me that the skill set for childhood is not anything like the skill set for adulthood. She told me that i just didn't have the traits that would make me excel at being a kid, especially in social life, but that I did have a lot of traits that would be great in an adult.She pointed out that many of the kids who were popular and seemed to have it all were going to undermine their hopes for adulthood by the end of high school ( or college at the latest) with binge drinking, experimenting with drugs, maltreating their bodies to achieve fashionable thinness, causing themselves permanent physical damage in pursuits of sports glory and so forth. Many others would simply find that all the skills they had so carefully honed throughout high school simply didn't work in adult life. She told me that when those people were sitting around at age forty, drinking and remembering those few years of perfection, I would have a life.
(pg 139 )
Can you identify yourself in this quote? I was the kid who worked hard only to find my skills in High school meant NOTHING in adulthood ( or college for that matter). Its probably the worst way to self destruct. Can you imagine, It feels like saying I failed because I did TOO well in high school.
Ugh,
Meranda F.
Work Cited:
Grandin, Temple Dr., and Sean Barron. The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationship: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism. 1st. Arlington: Future Horizons, Inc, 2005. 139. Print.
