Tomorrow is My Birthday

So Halloween came and went. Tomorrow is my birthday. I am turning twenty four. I can't believe I am that old. I really don't feel like I am twenty four, but I guess I am. The funny thing is that I am in that sort of "OMG am I getting old now?" sort of mentality.

You know you look forward to every birthday and the big ones are eighteen and twenty one. After twenty one though what are the highlight birthdays? None that I can really think of. I suppose I am not so much feeling old as I am feel as if people think I should be grown up now.

Graduation is coming up in a few months and the whole "real world" thing keeps getting told to me by countless people. I hate when people say that stuff, as if I am living in some delusional juvenile world now. It is like I am expected to cross some magical bridge and take on "adult responsibilities". I think there are several issues that are probably compounding this problem that I sort of have with it. One of least which being graduation approaching, but the others are probably the marriages and children that my friends and people I knew in high school are having. My good friend J has a daughter that is going to turn 2 on November 7th. He has had a daughter for two years!!!!!

I log on to the obligatory Facebook pages these days (because apparently it is the cool thing to do) and see people who were younger then me from high school getting married. I have to say it just sort of feels a little weird.

At any rate I am trying to stave off growing up as long as I can. I have sort of developed into a videogame nerd over the past two years and I am getting myself all revved up for the release of the Nintendo Wii. I am planning on actually getting up early that day (November 19th) to sit out in front of the store to make sure I get one. I have never, ever done anything like that before, but I think it will be sort of fun. Maybe I am doing that because I really want one, but maybe I am doing it because I still get to act like I am 16.

I'll be sure to blog about that experience as too.


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