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Feb. 25, 2009 - Growing up
*strides in importantly*
I have discovered what it means to grow-up, and in doing so solved the mysteries of the ages, and found the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Predictably it began with me being stupid. As usual...
I can’t even remember what it was about. Some stupid thing about *cough* spending all my free time on the internet or something. I didn’t even say it, but in my heart I thought, ‘How dare they tell me what to do! I’m a responsible adult now, I can make my own decisions’. Even before I had finished thinking it I was laughing at myself and inwardly blushing, because it was such a stupid and immature and self-contradictory (and teenagerish – but I am repeating myself) thing to even think.
But I did think it. And even when I hadn’t been actually inwardly voiced my thoughts – if that makes sense, and I know it doesn’t – I had been thinking them subconsciously anyway. Stupid and immature, I know. Sorry. *blushes outwardly too*
But in that moment when I met with the rebellious teenager self I had been trying to convince myself I was too mature to ever be, I had a bit of a moment of self realisation. Yeah, yeah, corny I know. And sort of obvious. But I always seem to miss the obvious things…
Anyhow, this obvious thing that I have been missing all my life is that I am not just going to turn into a responsible adult. I know I know… I told you it was obvious. But the fact is, all my life, growing up, I thought that adults were different. As in they worked on different brainwaves; totally different ones. (like, totally)
And right up until… well, right up until now and probably beyond now, I have to admit – I’ve been waiting for my brain to somehow change so I find it easier to be responsible and sensible and selfless and stop wanting to have fun and be lazy.
I mean, I knew it wouldn’t be dramatic and overnight or anything, and I knew that adults still weren’t perfect… but I still expected it to be easier for them. That someday you get to the point where you at least want to be good and just know stuff.
And then I heard myself thinking that I was a responsible adult and heard how ridiculous that was, and then I wondered why it was ridiculous – after all, I am getting pretty old now. *grin* Quite easily classed among the adults, utterly mind-bogglingly terrifying as that may be.
And then came the moment of realisation, and I suddenly discovered (or remembered or something) that life isn’t about suddenly becoming a ‘responsible adult’. Life – well, growing up, anyway – is about being an irresponsible adult and taking responsibility for that. If that makes sense.
And that’s what I want. What I want theoretically, anyway. To be able to take responsibility for my own irresponsibility, and pay the price for my own dumb decisions.
Take staying up writing blog posts until three in the morning, for example. Completely hypothetically, of course. Growing up then is about waking up after only four hours sleep and feeling like sleeping in until 10 the next morning and then acting like a zombie and blowing up at everyone and reading a book instead of doing yours chores. And then it’s about remembering that no one forced you to stay up so late and it’s no one’s fault but your own, and then getting your work done first thing so you don’t fall asleep on the job and taping your mouth shut with duct tape if you feel you can’t control your temper, and then after you’ve done all your work it’s about putting away whatever you were planning for fun in the afternoon and catching up on your sleep then. Or trying, anyway, and if you fail it’s about taking responsibility for it and not blaming other people. That’s what it’s about.
Of course, if I really were a responsible adult I would not be here at all, good resolutions for the morning or no. I would have gone to bed at a reasonable hour and would wake up in the morning feeling good and refreshed, and feel alive during the day instead of zombieing through it. And I would sit down in the afternoon and probably write a far more coherent blog post.
But I’m not. And maybe I’ll be wiser next time, and maybe I won’t. But I won’t be blaming other people when I’m grumpy in the mornings.
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Feb. 25, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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Pip |
*applauds Slt* Verra good! Shows you're on the path to maturity, just realizing you're on the path. Clear as mud? Good.
*is merrily exchanging insults with her on the NaNo chatzy thing*
God bless,
~PIP~ and The Poofie |
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Feb. 26, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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PoeticMaiden |
Well done, Altariel!! I have been feeling much the same way - both ways - alternating between, "I'll wait until it's easier to grow up,' and, 'Wait a second, growing up is not going to happen unless I decide to do it!" Unfortunately, it's so much easier just to lounge about inside the first mindset, and push the second one as far away from you as possible...
Anyhow, thank you for this beautiful and reflective post. It really serves as a great reminder to me that I need to be focusing on growing in all areas of my life, not just my writing, so that I can be prepared for whatever life dishes out at me.
I just wish there was a 'Be Responsible' club you could join, to make it easier to grow up. *sigh*
Love you!
~Cherise |
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Mar. 3, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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wildchild222 |
I've used to struggle with this too but right now I'm only 15 so I don't really need to grow up till June.
But I guess I'm lucky though coz it's in my genes. I was talking to mom yesterday and she said that her and Ouma had this too: They always looked way younger then they were. So I can basically grow up when I want to. I've stopped growing UPwards too. I was shocked to find out I hadn't grown an cm since last year. So I guess this is it. I'm not getting any taller.
As for YOU. I'm allot luckier then most of your internet friends because I actually know you. I think we grow up a whole lot before we admit it and you've always been more mature then I have.
And in the last year or more you have teenagerized without knowing it. I mean: slacking on chores, spending so much time on your blogs and stuff you don't have time to e-mail your real friends, and your interest in music which I didn't know you had until last year. (Apart from the childhood addiction to the Lion King which I'm sure will never fade from you and me.)
I don't have enough internet time to read your Cinderella story. I hope you put in the mice for me. I might get around to reading it soon. |
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Mar. 3, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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| Whatever has happened to HomeTime? I read a paragraph story of Tal's and I recommended he submits it to HomeTime. You'll like it. It's something about Why boys don't do Dishes. He wrote it last year before he went to school to it's all legal. I also sent back Haddie's interview ages ago. Did you get it? |
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Mar. 9, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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GottaluvBooks |
Very good post! Also, I awarded you!I pray you have a great week in the Lord, and God bless you,
Gottaluvbooks |
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Mar. 11, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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Equestrienne21 |
Hallo! I'm guessing that you didn't get my last comment! Oh well! Life goes on! Who cares! I like exclamation points! All done. Just had to get that out.
Dearest Gabygator: I seriously need to grow up. Like, it isn't something that even I giggle about. Thankfully, I think it's starting to happen....and I need to help it along a little more...I'm almost 13 and I still have to be told that doing math is part of life, nomatterwhat I think of it. And other things that are even worse, and I don't want to go into details. But thank you for the reminder. I needed that, especially coming from someone somewhere within a few years of my age.
Loveth you!
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Mar. 19, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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Tinuviel |
Don't you just love being a teenager?
Seriously, though. This blog post really makes a lot of sense, and I think I understand myself better after reading it. (Take that, Dr. Phil! Gabrielle Stuart beats you any day.)
Epiphanies can be rather scary, can't they? One moment you're basking in the sun, perfectly content in your blissful state of immaturity, when bam! The moment of realization is upon you, and you have no other choice but to grow up or remain a mere child. (The horror!)
That's the trouble with being the oldest, isn't it? (Or any older sibling, for that matter.) You're expected to be a good example to the younger kids, and must therefore make sacrifices. Or, as is far too often my case, pay the price for acting like a brat in the presence of your young siblings. We have such an impact on their lives, and we don't even realize it half the time!
As you can probably tell by my writing, it's far too late for me to be on the computer, and I've had too much sugar today, to boot. Therefore, I must cut this comment short before I utterly ruin my reputation as a perfectly serene and serious Elf maiden.
Oh, and I am very sorry to leave you wailing on the floor. But really, WordPress is ever so glorious!
*skips off to bed, acting strangely...Katie-like?* |
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Mar. 21, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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Pip |
Ha. haha. hahahaha...gee thanks, Slt DEAREST...
Oh well. I'm just wondering, what's the point of hopeless writing? It gets one nowhere! At least "Shaddai" and my NaNo novel this coming month has a plot that might actually DO something! *wrings hands*
God bless,
~PIP~
P.S. You are not, by any chance, a sporadic poster?! |
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Mar. 24, 2009 - A Message from the Society for Non-Cuteness
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Pip |
Like HECK the peekchurz of me are cute...watchit or I'll start insulting YOUR peekchurz!!! *muahahaha's*
WHAAAAAAAAAT?!?! No, I've only read the first LotR book...tell me Saruman dudn't esCAPE! This is dreadful, awful! *bemoans movie producers* And just WHY was I the last to know! So he does escape?! Gee whiz...oh well, I guessed it right! I'm so smawt! *wicked grin*
Yeah well, your comments are...most enthralling when I get them...just so long as you do NOT call me cute. Or I'll call you boring. Or something worse. I'll get You Know Who to think of insults, nuff said. I have back-up!
BY the WAY...post another blogpost soon or suffer!
God bless,
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Mar. 25, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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burnoutkenobi23 |
Hello there. My name is Gabriel and I just thought that you might want to see my blog. TeenShip Building Godly Leaders
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Apr. 1, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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Daethia |
Hi! It's Anna! *waves*
Very true. I try to act my age...mostly. Sometimes, though, I just want to do what I want to do... I am a very selfish person, I think. *grins* Still, no. It's not something that is going to happen overnight. Responsibility never happens overnight. You have to do this, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, and move on. Adults and adults simply because they have gone through the mistakes, learned from them, and have more knowledge than we do. They still end up making mistakes and doing dumb things....no one is completely perfect.
We simply have to work at it.
For instance, getting up at 5 am, writing for two hours, doing school without procrastination, doing chores, then doing whatever until bedtime. Go to bed right on time, and no one can say that you are lazy, disobedient, or anything like that. Responsibility and acting grown-up is sticking to such a schedule, and saying no when temptation presents itself. *nod nod*
Teenagers are silly, are they not? We all have that rebellious stage...we need to quench it, and then people won't be able to say that we are wild and rebellious. ;)
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Apr. 4, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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VintageAuthoress |
Hey, Gaby! I just wanted to pop in and say good bye! I'm leaving to go to BM soon. Have a good week end! "See" you when I get back on Monday or Tuesday! *hugs and waves*
*poofs in a cloud of dust from BM that lands on Gaby (ha!)*
~ Lady Katherine |
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Apr. 14, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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EowynDernhelm |
ALTARIEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*does a jig, squeezes Altariel, prances, and sings "Heigh ho, to the bottle I go..."*
Mae govannen!!
How are you??? I haven't talked to you in YEARS!! What's new? We need to talk again sometime soon on the Inklings chatzy, it's always so fun!!
I was wondering if you could help me with some Elvish. You know the song "Aniron" from the first LOTR movie? Well, I got the songbook for that movie [actually, for all three movies!!! THEY ROCK!!], and I don't like the lines "Aniron Undomiel...Aniron" [Eng translation "I desire Evenstar...I desire"] very much, so I wanted to change it to "I love Evenstar...I love", [that sounds a little more decent too] and I was wondering how to do that exactly. "Le melon" means "I love you" so I don't know if you would say "Le melon Undomiel" and that would mean "I love Evenstar" or "I love you Evenstar"...OR if you would say something else like "Le meleth Undomiel" or what!! ...sorry I'm so confusing, but that's how I feel right now! :P PLEEEEEZE help me out!!
Love ya!
~Lucy/Eowyn
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Apr. 19, 2009 - Untitled Comment
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MisterCool |
CONGRATZ. You are third on my never-ending commenting spree! (it must be done sometime....)
So, uhm...WHAT TO SAY?! I have more comments than you? xD hahahahahha. Jk, jk. Oh, wait...I really do. o.o
Well, anyways...to end this on a good note, your template rocks to the heavens. Never change it!! :D |
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Gabrielle is brilliant, beautiful, talented, sweet and good, yet marvellously humble. Haha... No. Let's try that again...
Gabrielle has a wicked sense of humour and far too much pride for her own good. She loves to write, and has spent a good portion of her life buried in books. She loves old English literature, anything Tolkien, and well-written humour.
She loves blogging, fanfiction, and spends a good portion of her day on her computer. Pretty active, she enjoys climbing, swimming, running, and sitting up trees, yet does not enjoy most ball sports.
At sixteen, she is still far more immature than she should be and enjoys the fact far too much, yet she can be serious at times and ponders deeply on many issues. She takes her faith very seriously, and strives to make becoming like her Lord her greatest wish.
She enjoys talking about herself in the third person.
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Dol Amroth was a coastal city in South Gondor. Built on a hilltop overlooking the Bay of Belfalas and crowned by Tirith Aear - the seaward tower - it was the Jewel of the Southern coasts. The Princes of Dol Amroth were prominent in Gondor and ruled much of the land about Belfalas.
Dol Amroth was the home of both sailors and mounted knights, yet they were also renowned for their harpists. The people of Dol Amroth were of Numenorian decent, and also accounted to have had elvish blood - passed down from Mithrellas, one of Nimrodel of Lothlorien's handmaidens. They were tall, dark haired and grey eyed, and spoke, for the most part, Sindarin.
Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth fought in the battle of the Pelennor Fields with many of his knights, and won renown for his deeds there, which included saving the life of his nephew, Faramir. Imrahil's sister, Finduilas, was the wife of Denethor, Steward of Gondor, and the mother of Boromir and Faramir. Imrahil's daughter, Lothiriel, later married King Eomer of Rohan.
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