i just realized that… tomarrow it will be exactly one month until i turn 20 and lose my teenagerdom. Does this mean….. I have to grow up nao? I dont wanna.
*sob* I'm ooooolllllllllllllllldddddd waaaah.

*sniff* at least all the presents I get will help me cope with my oldness
And i do expect presents. From every one of you. I will take any present in the form of
Fanarts, Money, Men and random crap I posted on my Amazon wishlist.

Well, happy early birthday! And don't think of turning 20 as a loss of your teenagerdom…think of it as the beginning of your awesome, thriving, way-better-than-teenagerdom, less angsty 20s!

I turn 20 in April - and like amanda says, it's less a loss of teenagerdom, and more a gain of a less angsty 20-something-dom. :)

A hearty congratulations in advance!

mishi_hime
i just realized that… tomarrow it will be exactly one month until i turn 20 and lose my teenagerdom. Does this mean….. I have to grow up nao? I dont wanna.
*sob* I'm ooooolllllllllllllllldddddd waaaah.

Pffft… I turned 20 almost 23 years ago, and I still haven't grown up. I see no reason you have to.

Fenn's right; age in years doesn't mean anything. It's how old you feel inside that counts. I still act like a six-year-old most of the time (but I know when to put a lid on it when I'm in a professional setting).

Completely true. You may have to grow old, but you never have to grow up. I plan on acting like I'm 20 for the rest of my life.

Grow up when you have to, but remember that getting older just means you have more choices as to what age you are at that moment. :D

teedomoonstrider
getting older just means you have more choices as to what age you are at that moment

Oooh, I LOVE this!

I'm 51.

That's only if you put my actual age backwards, though.

I'm 105 if I were a dog.

pssshhhh…..i'm about to turn 22 and i wont celebrate this birthday….just like i didnt celebrate my 20 or 21…..but that's partly my choice…


p.s. join the military if you want to grow up…i know people who are retiring after 20 years, and they're still pondering what they want to go to college for…

Frostflowers
I turn 20 in April - and like amanda says, it's less a loss of teenagerdom, and more a gain of a less angsty 20-something-dom. :)

Being a 20-something is LESS angsty?

Oh! Oh ho! Oh ho ho! OH ho ho ha ahahahahaha–!!!!

We'll check back in a few years and see if you still think that's true. ;)

Look at it this way: while your in your twenties, the date pool is much larger.

mishi_hime
i just realized that… tomarrow it will be exactly one month until i turn 20 and lose my teenagerdom. Does this mean….. I have to grow up nao? I dont wanna.
*sob* I'm ooooolllllllllllllllldddddd waaaah.

*sniff* at least all the presents I get will help me cope with my oldness
And i do expect presents. From every one of you. I will take any present in the form of
Fanarts, Money, Men and random crap I posted on my Amazon wishlist.

Growing up only details paying your bills on time and that you have money to pay your bills. Otherwise…pffffff, who cares.

What's odd is when you turn 24. Adults aren't adults anymore, they're people…and teenagers aren't friends, they're kids.

Croi Dhubh
Growing up only details paying your bills on time and that you have money to pay your bills. Otherwise…pffffff, who cares.

What's odd is when you turn 24. Adults aren't adults anymore, they're people…and teenagers aren't friends, they're kids.

True. But add to that:
*Lots more freedom -YAY! \^_^/
*Taxes - Grrrrrr… -_-
*Increasing awareness of your own mortality - Boo-hoo ;_;

I'm 25… and a half. So, officially, I'm now closer to 30 than 20. All the people I've known in school and college have gotten married or are getting married soon. Some days, that makes me feel like a loser – but other days, it makes me feel like the winner. lol

I've never liked teenagers. When I was a teenager, I hated me too. I always hung out with 30-something and 40-something friends. I still do, but now we have a lot more to talk about.

usedbooks
I've never liked teenagers. When I was a teenager, I hated me too. I always hung out with 30-something and 40-something friends. I still do, but now we have a lot more to talk about.

I would agree, I hate 80 percent of the teenagers at school. (The percentage is actually higher, but I have been told to be more optimistic.) The ones that I loathe are immature, and have opinions that should never be expressed. I only talk to the ones that I can bare.

…Which isn't that many, actually.

I hang out with people older than me. They're not that much older; they are mostly in college. When they try to be humorous, it doesn't involve sexualities and excrement, unlike the humor many people of the student body use. Disgusting.

Getting back to the ‘growing old’ conversation: Your personality will never change, no matter how ‘old’ you say you are getting. In fact, the youngest-acting adult I have ever met was around 70 years old. Even if he was much more older than me, we talked to each other playfully.

Oh, and it's not how many years old you are, it's how many years experienced you are.

I'm 16 years experienced.

I'm close to turning twenty as well. On the upside, It's one year closer to being able to legally ingest alcoholic beverages.

SeriousQuiche
I'm close to turning twenty as well. On the upside, It's one year closer to being able to legally ingest alcoholic beverages.

Heh, that's what I thought.

keithmccleary
Being a 20-something is LESS angsty?

Oh! Oh ho! Oh ho ho! OH ho ho ha ahahahahaha–!!!!

Well, I like to think so ^.^ I put aside my angsty journals of poetry, stopped wearing all that black, developed a fondness for the color pink…not that it was a switch I flipped or anything. I was just by and large out of that mindset (i.e., high school/college).

usedbooks
I'm 25… and a half

Me too! We should high-five.

dancingchaos
Your personality will never change, no matter how ‘old’ you say you are getting

I read this book for work called Strengths Finder (it's way better than it sounds, and it's changed the way I look at people) about a year ago that talked about your core personality being cemented by the time you're five. Seems pretty accurate.

And yeah, the “gee I can buy alcohol and lottery tickets and white-out with no hassle” thing is pretty nice.

…I still wear lots of black. Of course, I look really good in it, so that helps. 27, FTW.

No one thinking you're buying dry ice to make big explosions or fireworks to blow up in water bombs is also really nice

Okay, agreed that some of the typical teen behaviors disappear when you hit your 20's…but they're just traded in for a whole new set of idiotic personality traits.

Maybe that's just a 20-something NYC hipster thing, though.