a cure for the Peter Pan complex
Oct. 24th, 2008 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_kae_oz.
Most of us say it at one point or another. "I just don't feel like an adult," or "I am just a big kid."
Guess what, *you are not a kid. And if you ever need help realizing this, spend a few hours a day every day for a week in highschools giving presentations to students. They will scare you, they will surprise you, they will make you smile. Through all of it, you will feel the gap years of experience has brought you. Even though we all have moments loning to relive younger moments and want second chances to do somethings over, you will, especially if 2 of those days were spent at a school for students with behavior problems and learning issues, thank your god for every year you have between you and highschool.
Things aren't always great, and the past 5 or so have been some of the hardest in my life, but oh my. How far we've come...
* - "You". As this is for my lj friends, most reading this are adults. If you are reading this and you are not an actual, legal adult, than this obviously does not apply to you.
Most of us say it at one point or another. "I just don't feel like an adult," or "I am just a big kid."
Guess what, *you are not a kid. And if you ever need help realizing this, spend a few hours a day every day for a week in highschools giving presentations to students. They will scare you, they will surprise you, they will make you smile. Through all of it, you will feel the gap years of experience has brought you. Even though we all have moments loning to relive younger moments and want second chances to do somethings over, you will, especially if 2 of those days were spent at a school for students with behavior problems and learning issues, thank your god for every year you have between you and highschool.
Things aren't always great, and the past 5 or so have been some of the hardest in my life, but oh my. How far we've come...
* - "You". As this is for my lj friends, most reading this are adults. If you are reading this and you are not an actual, legal adult, than this obviously does not apply to you.
