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Growing Up

I need an adult—an adultier adult.

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As with my most recent article, "Oh Great, A Birthday," I turned 21 this past week. The same feelings and opinions still rush through me a few days after. Granted, I'd like to buy alcohol just to, I guess use my new found superpower and then give it away, maybe to a group of children and lay back and watch. Talk about a viral sensation, yeah?

All jokes aside, delivering food to my local liquor store has made me feel an awkward feeling to just search around and get something just to say I have. Now I'm not much of the drinker, and like I've said before, if your goal was to get absolutely hammered and you expect me to be your designated driver or take care of you, then you'll get no help from me. The only thing I'm helping with from there is taking your car keys away, but I'll let you swim in your own vomit because that's exactly what you wanted.

With all that repeated from my last article, I wouldn't mind being a bartender. I like the idea of crafting things by putting a bunch of other crap together and it's a fairly social occupation to have. I've also heard it's a real dropper, so I thought I'd work on those skills for the lady since she drinks here and there.

Besides alcohol, which is pretty much the main course meal for this age, there is a bit of "growing up" that I should apparently consider. My games, where my money goes, how much of a nerd I really am etc. It's hard to process these changes that people say need to happen because I'm growing up. It's funny because the reasons aren't always the same but follow the same trend, and it's mostly for two reasons:

You'll never find a girl if you're always in your room or playing games.

You're getting older and playing games should be something you don't really do as much, if at all.

I could agree with these statements if it wasn't for a few things. I've found a pretty incredible girl while playing Xbox and as rare as it is, it happened, and that debunks that. Also, I could understand getting older means I should stop playing games, at least so much, but from one nerd to a none nerd, no thanks. I'm not the biggest partier and socially I'm an animal, but I'd rather be more of a bear than a wolf in the night. It's hard to steer clear of something I've grown with and that has helped me learn real life situations and people from outside of the US. "Growing up" is something that I just can't come to terms with.

I get that I have to grow up. That's all fine and dandy, but there are some things that won't be separated from me because age "doesn't allow it." I'll be a nerd or a geek until I die and that's that. They have worked out for me. I plan for it all to work out for me. People say I'm funny, but the real joke is when those same people tell me to grow up. Hard pass friend, hard pass.

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