{"id":2429,"date":"2007-07-19T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T12:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2007\/07\/19\/young-and-wise\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:28","slug":"young-and-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/young-and-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Young and wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/850825595\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1309\/850825595_ab699b915e_o.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"440\" alt=\"dreamer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think never before i have been so aware of the fact that i am, like every other being, getting older. &#8220;Getting older&#8221; until now sounded to me like &#8216;grow up to become an adult&#8217; &#8211; i guess it should have stopped there, once you are an adult. You grow up, and remain, an adult. No moving further, i should not get older. I should not reach the day where girls my age are getting pregnant and moving into family mode. My boyfriend should not get gray hairs, my mom should not retreat, my brother, this small thing i&#8217;ve seen from his day one on earth, should not become a dad!<\/p>\n<p>And oh dear, it isn&#8217;t about responsibilities &#8211; i moved out at 18, and have handled everything by myself from this day. It is about changing, growing as a plant to a three, becoming a forest. Maybe it&#8217;s about control. About me not standing the idea that nature control my life and will, whatever i do, give all people i love gray hairs. I am fighting to stand eyes wide open to notice my now, taking mental pictures of everything and getting my stuff ready because sooner than later, i&#8217;ll find myself surrounded by old, but wise, friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think never before i have been so aware of the fact that i am, like every other being, getting older. &#8220;Getting older&#8221; until now sounded to me like &#8216;grow up to become an adult&#8217; &#8211; i guess it should have stopped there, once you are an adult. You grow up, and remain, an adult.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/young-and-wise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young and wise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}