Can you remember the moment you realised you are not a child any more?
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Clearly. the first family funeral i ever went to.
it began the disillusionment of home as something familiar and safe and fractured it into just being the place where my family lived, no longer my own home. school and uni only continued the decline until my current gardenstate complex of not knowing where my home is. I've just finished my thesis on that subject of global dislocation in our generation and the search for home. I think Gen X grew up faster than any previous generation.
there's a beautiful quote by Douglas Coupland which says,
"When I wake up in the morning, for the first few minutes before I remember where I am, or when I am or who I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five. I wish all feelings could be this way."
The day I give birth to my own child !!
Yes, when in college, I realized that if I stole something, I would be tried as an adult, not a juvenile.
Nope, 36 years old and still a child!
Yep, flunking out of college.that hit me pretty hard.
the interviewing officer told me i no longer needed my parents to be present
When I had to start helping pay the bills.
When I had a child..
When I held my daughter for the first time!
One of the best days of my life!
still not quite there lol
I'm not a child anymore? Oh my god!! I'm not a child anymore!! AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!
I think I'm still a child.
no i didnt untill I saw your question
Yes, I am 44 years old and it dawned on me as I read this question. Darn.
That day still hasn't really arrived!
The day I got married
The moment i realised is when i started to see myself in a different way, that i was actually starting to make my own way through life (like earning money), and having meaningful conversations with parents and friends
yes when I had to study in uni on the language I didn't know well.
yes i was burgled when i was at work, i had just moved into a flat share in edinburgh, i thought i was going to enjoy adult life and being burgled scaired the sh** outta me.
i wanted to go home so bad. i was 15 and had moved out of home because i couldnt get along with my family
When Ikea workers told me I was too old to play in the colorful balls/park area.
When I began to worry about money.
i still am lol
No; it comes on slow. Though, I remember being in the changing rooms and being conscious that I wasn't a child down there anymore. And I remember that timeof being alfway between a man andboy. Now it comes on quick, but still I noticed.
August 1996. Although I still feel like one sometimes, 10 years later.
I'm not better go let my kids know they think I am one of them.
I remember: It was the day I got married and headed off to my new house w. my new hubby and my new life and I was the one in charge of everything.
But..Everyone that knows me ..thinks I am a child at heart.So maybe I never grew up.
I still am a child at heart, And hope i never feel like an adult, This does not mean i don't feel the responserbilities of an adult, but there is a difference, Try never to grow up like Peter pan.
I now have near enough everthing my farther had, My own house, Small business and a good independant life style, This does not make me feel any more like an adult.(Thats a good thing i think)
Yeah I think it was this morning. No wait.. I haven't realized it yet. After all I'm only 47. Never having kids will keep you young.
At my marriage and totally at my divorce.
For me was when I went to National Service in the Army. Things are to be done by myself. I m responsible for my own actions. Responsibility is something that we must learn as we grown up,
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .
I do not feel that different from when I was a child - I just have my own house and bankaccount.
When I was alone in the hospital after losing more blood then one person really should and by the end of the day not a single soul visited me or called.
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