Never miss a chance to dance

I had this conversation with friends the other day and I feel that the concept is worth expanding upon. We were talking and the question was posed when are we truly grown up.

When we are young, or at least when I was, adults were our providers and as such it seemed like they had everything under control. They were bastions of order in a world that grew more chaotic everyday as we learned more. That chaos is frightening but it only seemed out of control because we were young right? Surely when we became grown up we would have everything under control just like our parents. Then as we started growing up and seeing beyond the pale we realized that our parents, the people who at one time seemed like demi-gods are just human like us. And just like all humans they have human limitations. They have concerns, doubts, and fears just like we did when we were young, but their concerns also included us.

I am in college right now which more or less could be called hiding from the “real” world. It gives me a chance to think though, and what I see is that there is no day when we officially become grown up. There is no special ceremony no high authority that says “congratulations you are now an adult now here is the secret to life”. There is no instruction manual to this life no book that holds the key to success (yes I realize that one could make an argument for the Bible being that book but I see that more as a set of guidelines rather than definitive instructions). On day you will wake up and realize you are an “adult” and you will have responsibilities. You will own a house or apartment, pay bills, and maybe even have a wife and kids. You will be starring at your life wondering when it all f’ing happened; when did you go from being a kids to having actual things to worry about?

Enjoy youth because it will be taken from you and you won’t even notice it happening.