I find myself singing part of the toys r us theme song at least once a week, "I don't wanna grow up I'm a toys r us kid", but instead I change it to "I don't want to get up I'm a toys r us kid" or "I don't wanna go to work, I'm a..." because I'm usually singing it on Sunday morning and I think how I don't want to go to work. The thing is I actually like my job because as for jobs it's quite decent. The people are nice, the work is interesting, and they give me lunch money which kind of makes me feel like a toys r us kid, but who am I to complain since I don't want to grow up and I want to stay a kid, at least as much as a 24 year old can stay a kid.
I've given it a lot of thought recently and I've decided that I'd like to stay 24 years old until I feel that I've accomplished everything I want to at this point in my life. I don't think it'll be too difficult, I just need to become successful doing something I love, complete a novel, a book of short stories, read 500 more books this year, lose 10 kilo just for my own pure vanity, travel around the world, get a dog, and I'm sure there's so much more- (I'll think about it and add it to my Chanukah wish list). All of these things that I would really like to do are things I want to do while I'm still young and the amazing thing about staying a kid is that you can continue to push off these things until the end of time, which is what I've done most of my life.
But the problem is that as I get older I'm supposed to do all this other stuff, "grown-up stuff", stuff I'm just not ready to do- like get married, start a family, own a home and keep it clean, and work because my family (the one that I'm not ready for) needs the money. I know it's bad but all I can think of in response to this is, "eww". And yet for some reason, so many people I know are getting engaged or married and I just don't understand it. I'm happy for them because that's what they want, but the concept seems so foreign to me. Maybe it's the fact that I just see today's adults as (physically) big-little kids acting as grown ups- boys putting on their fathers' suits, girls putting on clown makeup and dressing in their mothers' high heels (and not knowing how to walk in them). Am I delusional? Or is it just that as I'm getting older, I realize how we're all just kids acting as adults because that's what we've been taught to do. But then again I was carded at the supermarket last week because the cashier thought I was under 18- so maybe it's just me.
FYI- there are Toys R Us stores in Israel and they're super lame!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJ-ZLdrTwY
I've given it a lot of thought recently and I've decided that I'd like to stay 24 years old until I feel that I've accomplished everything I want to at this point in my life. I don't think it'll be too difficult, I just need to become successful doing something I love, complete a novel, a book of short stories, read 500 more books this year, lose 10 kilo just for my own pure vanity, travel around the world, get a dog, and I'm sure there's so much more- (I'll think about it and add it to my Chanukah wish list). All of these things that I would really like to do are things I want to do while I'm still young and the amazing thing about staying a kid is that you can continue to push off these things until the end of time, which is what I've done most of my life.
But the problem is that as I get older I'm supposed to do all this other stuff, "grown-up stuff", stuff I'm just not ready to do- like get married, start a family, own a home and keep it clean, and work because my family (the one that I'm not ready for) needs the money. I know it's bad but all I can think of in response to this is, "eww". And yet for some reason, so many people I know are getting engaged or married and I just don't understand it. I'm happy for them because that's what they want, but the concept seems so foreign to me. Maybe it's the fact that I just see today's adults as (physically) big-little kids acting as grown ups- boys putting on their fathers' suits, girls putting on clown makeup and dressing in their mothers' high heels (and not knowing how to walk in them). Am I delusional? Or is it just that as I'm getting older, I realize how we're all just kids acting as adults because that's what we've been taught to do. But then again I was carded at the supermarket last week because the cashier thought I was under 18- so maybe it's just me.
FYI- there are Toys R Us stores in Israel and they're super lame!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJ-ZLdrTwY
I know what you mean, Suzanne. We're trying to fight the biological AND social clocks. I wonder if there are 24 year olds that actually enjoy being an active participant in the socially acceptable 'adult' world. I like the "alternative" family I guess, not the perfect family, going to perfect jobs in three piece suits, sending children to the best school followed by some soccer practice...accompanied by loud dirty kids screaming for pizza bagels. Alt. family-A family defined by a committed couple enjoying life to the fullest and not trying to fit the aforementioned cookie cutter family mold.
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Why must it always be soccer? As far as I know Americans prefer baseball, basketball, and football over soccer. Bizarre isn't it?
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