#growing up

[folksyswift]

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately…

“And even though you want to, please try to never grow up. -> I wish I'd never grown up. -> How did I go from growing up to breaking down? -> I never grew up, it's getting so old. -> And if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow. -> I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser -> Growing up precocious sometimes means not growing up at all. -> You said you were gonna grow up then you were gonna come find mе.” - Taylor Swift

[sagessge]

Children watch the older kids

"I wonder when I'll be of that age" They say

The same teens looks at children

"Gosh,why did I think this was fun?" They whisper

Adults,all burnt out and done

"Gosh,take me back!" They grumble

The mid-life crisis is hard

Feeling her rotten,loosening skin, she looked annoyed

"All that youth in vain" she says

Comes the old age,dropping fast

For the time flies

The hair turns white and wrinkles blew over the face

In the mirror they see

All their life

It was something else

Of some other age

That they yearned to be

'Tis human tendency

But please,live a little

And grow up beautifully

Celebrate each white hair

'Tis not the end,my dear

'Tis the testimony

That you survived

That you thrived

So laugh as loud as you can

And live like you want

So one day when you look in the mirror

And smile and say

"Good days aren't over,yet"

[mentalnote1]

Puberty ~ Poetry

I tried to off myself

I cut my wrist

Watched blood seep from my veins

I thought of other ways but I’m too young for cocaine

Doctor told me I had a sprain and she bandaged my brain

***

I’m 13 years old and my dad tells me things will

Eve-Vent-Chu-Ally change

***

Mammas tryna’ get me away we took a ride on the train

I remember when mamma was sick

She had a sprain in her brain

I went with mamma weekly when she took the ride on the train

***

I stayed with the doc for 2 weeks

Until I went back to schoo’

Brian has a new girlfriend now but I don’t give a fuc’ cause I’m coo’

[permdaydreamer]

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

[incognitopolls]

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[eccedentesiast-skies]

You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

[starry-eon]

poem excerpt by me | a uquiz i'm unable to find | Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper | Natalie Diaz, A Brother Named Gethsemane | tiktok | tumblr | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | The Bible

[musings-n-museums]

i'm gonna make them so proud.

quote, @plumslices \\ i will, mitski \\ photo from pinterest \\ never grow up, taylor swift \\ photo from pinterest \\ quote, lalah delia \\ the best day, taylor swift \\ photo from pinterest \\ quote, @mounaks (could not find their acc) \\ both last photos from pinterest

[withinsight-motivation]

[dont-be-tumb]

[classycookiexo]

[its-simply-just-krys]

anonymous ; found on pinterest

[petrichara]

Trying to remember the last time I played hide and seek. The last time I said hi to everyone on the street or saw the girls I spent every day of six years with. The last time my dad picked me up, or my mum brushed my hair. When was the last time I dressed without consideration? There is so much to think about now. I remember falling on the grass at school and making stories with the clouds. Hanging upside down from the swing and realising how big the world was. I wonder on the path of growing when we stop feeling big. I am taller now, smaller still.

[clcmentines]

on being a teen

what highly specific emotion are you?, tumblr user @/cowlovely / letter from mom, animal crossing / the year you died (for anderson yeh), megan falley / tumblr user @/sakshiojha / tumblr user @/wastelandbebe / unknown / alida nugent

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[reasonsforhope]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but especially with the end of the school year coming up soon, and a bunch of people about to leave high school or about to leave college, I just wanted to say:

Being an adult can be really nice, actually!!!

Like, okay, yeah, life can be fucking stressful sometimes, and there's definitely an annoying amount of paperwork.

But me and just about every single adult I know will agree: I would never choose to go back to being a teenager, even if I somehow could.

Insert obvious disclaimer that nothing is universal. But for people worried about aging or graduating into the next chapter of life, here's some words of reassurance:

When you're a teenager, your brain is extra mean to you. Like, neurologically. All of the changes it's undergoing really, really increase rates of depression/anxiety/etc. A lot of the time, literally just not being a teenager anymore is really good for your mental health

Less than five months out of high school, everyone I knew my age was like "Thank fuck we're no longer in high school." Once you leave high school and adolescence there's really just such a dramatic drop in petty bullshit. Shit that would have been a huge social humiliation or gossip in high school is really often just like, "Hate that for you, man." Boom, done.

When you're a teenager or a brand new adult, you're encountering so many problems for the first time ever. When you're older, you just. Have learned how to handle a lot more things. You know what to do way more often and that builds confidence

When you're an adult, other people generally don't care if you don't do things perfectly, because jobs and life don't work like grades. This was such a trip to learn, honestly? But when you are an adult or have a job the bar for success is usually just "Did you do the thing?" or "Did you do the thing well enough that it works?" or "Did you show up to work for your whole shift and look like you were doing things?"

Similarly, if you're about to graduate college and you're really stressed about it, fyi just about everyone I knew in college ended up very quickly going "wow, 'real life' is way easier." Admittedly I went to a school full of very stressed out perfectionists and the like, so I can't promise this is universal, but there's a very real chance that life will in many ways get easier when you graduate

WAY MORE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE

Literally I cannot overstate that last point. As an adult, you are (barring certain disabilities or shitty circumstances like abusive family/the criminal justice system/etc.) able to make most of your own decisions. If you want to rearrange your furniture, you can. If you want to eat tater tots at midnight, you can. If you want to get yourself a little treat, you can. You can sign contracts and make your own legal and medical decisions and not need a parent or guardian signature for just about anything ever again

You generally learn how to give fewer fucks

The people around you have also generally learned how to give fewer fucks

Even when things are shitty, being able to choose what kind of shitty a lot of the time can really be worth an awful lot