Comments on: WHEN I GROW UP… http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/2008/05/19/when-i-grow-up/ Little Bill. Just Words. Just Images. Just Me. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: aliastaken http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/2008/05/19/when-i-grow-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9545 aliastaken Sun, 25 May 2008 13:49:34 +0000 http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/?p=234#comment-9545 Let me say that only a good parent can be called 'adult'. There are plenty of selfish, shitty parents out there who still haven't earned the title. At 58 and 57 my own two overgrown teenage parents fall into that category. Of course my dad (58) is lving with his 32 year-old- girlfriend so maybe he is finally 'responsible for another person'. What do you say? Should we give him an upgrade? Let me say that only a good parent can be called ‘adult’. There are plenty of selfish, shitty parents out there who still haven’t earned the title. At 58 and 57 my own two overgrown teenage parents fall into that category. Of course my dad (58) is lving with his 32 year-old- girlfriend so maybe he is finally ‘responsible for another person’. What do you say? Should we give him an upgrade?

]]> By: kelly http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/2008/05/19/when-i-grow-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9460 kelly Wed, 21 May 2008 02:00:38 +0000 http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/?p=234#comment-9460 To this end, I bought nice new bath towels. I can't fathom the cost of actually furnishing a house in grown-up style. I wish I had better natural design skills, then I could make it work on the cheap. One part of me became an adult as soon as they put me in charge of 165 pre-adolescents when I was 22 years old. I remember meeting an intern at a friend's company. The guy was 20 or 21, barely younger than I, but seemed like such a kid (he was probably making as much in his summer internship as I did in a year in my job). Another part of me feels like I am constantly circling back to identity issues that we tend to link to teenagers... but I wonder, if that's truly the case, then maybe we should give teenagers more credit, since things like heartsickness, loneliness, the thin veneer of self-confidence... they don't really go away, do they? Yet often we say we're "like a 15-year-old" when we're experiencing the worst of these emotions and being stirred up by them.... I dunno, I'll stop rambling in your comments... To this end, I bought nice new bath towels. I can’t fathom the cost of actually furnishing a house in grown-up style. I wish I had better natural design skills, then I could make it work on the cheap.

One part of me became an adult as soon as they put me in charge of 165 pre-adolescents when I was 22 years old. I remember meeting an intern at a friend’s company. The guy was 20 or 21, barely younger than I, but seemed like such a kid (he was probably making as much in his summer internship as I did in a year in my job).

Another part of me feels like I am constantly circling back to identity issues that we tend to link to teenagers… but I wonder, if that’s truly the case, then maybe we should give teenagers more credit, since things like heartsickness, loneliness, the thin veneer of self-confidence… they don’t really go away, do they? Yet often we say we’re “like a 15-year-old” when we’re experiencing the worst of these emotions and being stirred up by them….

I dunno, I’ll stop rambling in your comments…

]]> By: slackmistress http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/2008/05/19/when-i-grow-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9435 slackmistress Tue, 20 May 2008 03:30:54 +0000 http://www.littlebill.net/wordpress/?p=234#comment-9435 I agree with your dad! I know a couple of people who have huge responsibilities and hefty mortgages and such, and they still act like kids. But my friends who have children - THEY'RE adults! :) Great post, BTW. I agree with your dad! I know a couple of people who have huge responsibilities and hefty mortgages and such, and they still act like kids. But my friends who have children – THEY’RE adults! :)

Great post, BTW.

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