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I'm 18 in four days! I am absolutley not prepared for this! I will not lose my childhood!
It's going. I will actually have responsibilities; forms to fill in, I have to fucking *vote*.
I've been really depressed the last couple of days; I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
I guess I just did.
Christ, this is horrible; I want advice and people telling me how great it is to be older: I don't want Pinback complaining about what it's like to turn 30 or Robb's Quarter-Life Crises all over again. Be nice to me; my world is caving in like a huge mountain of experience waiting to be experienced. Over the last two weeks everything I know has been changing; even the rock that is a man I have never met is making a life-altering decision. Okay, that's probably a minor one, all-in-all, but it's the lego-piece that broke the Mindstorm Creation's back. There's one thing I can say to this:

What the fuck is this happy horseshit?

Sorry dude, all down hill from there.

Seriously though, you can now get a tattoo. Or buy your own smokes. You are your own legal gaurdian. That's about it.

Yeah, I'd agree that there's a not a whole lot to look forward to, but then again, I wasn't exactly happy at your age either and it sounds like you've got a lot going for you. I'd just concentrate on doing what makes you happy, or at least make sure you damn well get the bullshit (like getting a degree) out of the way, instead of getting stuck somewhere in the middle, looking back at seven years with pretty much nothing to show for it except for a half-finished text game that some people liked, sure, but you still never got off your ass to finish it.

DON'T BE THAT GUY!!1

Lex wrote:I'm 18 in four days! I am absolutley not prepared for this! I will not lose my childhood!

Look, just because you're no longer considered to be a "child" it doesn't mean you can't date girls who, legally, are.

When you get older, you start to repeat yourself all the time. Luckily, this is not the case with me... yet. Otherwise, I'd mention that 18 is fine, it's everything after 27 you have to look out for -- I hold this opinion because when I was 14 I made a superhero who was the oldest I thought anyone could be and still be cool (27). Then I exceeded that age and it sucked.

So me not mentioning that for like the 1,025th time is extremely, extremely fortunate.

I don't see the big deal. I'll be eighteen in about a year and in college and shit. I haven't decided what I want I haven't decided where I want it ... I don't even know what I want to do about this whole sex aspect of life!

Fuck it. I'm reading that pamphlet taking my driver test getting a job and buying a Warre Zevon CD. Growning up, old, down, left, right, it is all fucking icing buddy.

Warren ... damnit ... Warren

Inbetween I drink ... black coffee

The best part of turning 18 in the middle of my senior year of high school was being able to sign myself in and out of school.

Oh, and selling cigarettes to 15 year olds at grossly inflated prices. Actually almost got myself fired from Wegmans for that. D'oh!