Comments on: Pursuing The Inevitable

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:23:15 +0000

I think that growing up can seem scary, but there are aspects of growing up that I look forward to.
Before I became a rebelutionary I dreamed of changing the world when I grew up, now I know that I do not have to wait, if I put my mind to it I can change the world right now.
Alex and Brett have made that clear in everything they have written.

By: Mei-Lin Po

Mei-Lin Po — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:15 +0000

Also- I realize that this site was created primarily for and by teens and youth; but I am wondering whether it might be possible to make a section of this site for those of us who are somewhat older, the recovering kidults, to connect, blog, etc.?

By: Mei-Lin Po

Mei-Lin Po — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:52:53 +0000

Allegra’s comments reminded me of something; growing up may be scary, but I suspect that sometimes it may seem scarier than it really has to be.

As a child and teen growing up, I was terrified that to become an adult meant the end, not merely of “fun” in the shallow, self-absorbed sense which these blogs have been so masterfully exploring, but of joy, wonder, celebration, the ‘magic’ of childhood; I feared it meant getting turned into a corporate America drone.

(If any of you are familiar with Supertramps “The Logical Song”, the lyrics capture my misgivings quite accurately.)
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Supertramp/The-Logical-Song.html )

Now as a thirtysomething recovering kidult struggling to find and claim my lost maturity, I have increasingly come to realize that mature adulthood need not mean ceasing to be childLIKE, as one grows out of being childISH.

(If “the Logical Song” summed up my misgivings perfectly, another song equally perfectly captures the cure for this mood: Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins.)
http://www.pooh-corner.org/pooh_corner_lyrics.shtml

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:28:34 +0000

Great, you guys were fast with that!

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:13:12 +0000

He guys, love reading the blog. I don’t comment often but I want to call attention to the comment about rainforest above. I unintentionally clicked the title and it immediately came up a very offensive porn site. You guys need to keep up the troll patrol! I understand it is hard to catch them all, but I am glad I quit my browser as fast as I could… now I shall have to explain the score to my accountability partner… ha.

By: Elisabeth Gruber

Elisabeth Gruber — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:38:12 +0000

I wonder if growing up is hard also because it means giving up some things that we like now to mature, but we will find better and more fulfilling things as we grow up…

What do you mean by ” our companions are not limited to people” ? Do you mean like books? We could learn a lot from book-companions. Especially if we cannot be around the actual wise people who wrote them.

I clicked on those highlighted words, but it kept saying “error: page not found”. But I still would really like to know what “companions not limited to people” means. :c)

~Elisabeth J. Gruber

By: laura

laura — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:27:07 +0000

Oh yeah, and I totally agree with Jan -Growing Up is GREAT!!!!

By: laura

laura — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:25:13 +0000

In many ways I can understand you Allegra. A lot of adults I knew as a child weren’t very connected with children, and made me feel excluded from the world (to this day I still hate being excuded from anything). I kinda got the feeling that it was boring being “Grown Up”.
Now that I’m graduating from high school and on the brink of what society calls “adulthood”, I reaize that it was just them and adults don’t have to be boring. i think I have also leared to remember what it felt like for me to be noticed and included by people I looked up to. They took time to be interested in me enough to play with me, even if it was a bit boring for them.

By: Kaisha

Kaisha — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:53:57 +0000

I think that becoming an adult, does not include comletely forgetting childhood. Even though I’m seventeen, I still immensely appreciate it when a grown up can easily play games and joke with me and my siblings. I don’t want to grow up to be the kind of person that all the children have to “mind their p’s and q’s” around. Of course I want to be responsable, mature, and goldy. But I think that being mature is more than people often think it is. When I’m in the store, and my sister drops the ketchup bottle and gets ketchup all over, being mature isn’t just being able to handle the situation calmly, I think it involves being able to laugh about it, and being responsable enough to help clean it up and pay for it. At the end of a lengthy quote by C. S. Lewis, in which he talks about growing up, he says: “A tree grows because it adds rings: a train doesn’t grow by leaving one station behind and puffing on to the next.”

That kinda sums up what I was thinking. This is a great series, and is encouraging me to really grow up in my responsability, and to stretch myself. Thanks for putting it up!

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:54:50 +0000

Jan posted that someone said the high school years are supposed to be fun. I’d like to meet those people. They can come tour my high school. I hope they’re into serious drama, catfights, drugs, immaturity, and snobbiness. If that’s their idea of fun, then by all means, high school is a blast. =/ just thought I’d remind those who have forgotten- beinga teen is sometimes just as bad as being an adult.