Carla Rocks the Teenie Bop
Mar. 27th, 2004 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlI'm surrounded by teenagers.
Pretty interesting development if you ask me. Seems at the moment that all the people I feel closests to or am developing a vested interest in fall between the ages of 17-19. There's Other Mike of course, and Victor, and Ana the cool lesbian I'm going to the movies with tomorrow (I hope I hope I hope.) And it's so weird because the older I've gotten the more I've tried to distance myself from teenagers. I mean by my senior year at Knox I was consciously avoiding the freshmen because I had no interest in their newly discovered immature college drama. I'd already been there, done that and wanted to associate with people who were just as jaded as me.
But now that I work at NYIT the majority of people I interact with on a daily basis are 18 and 19 year olds. (Only freshmen ever visit the library. Upper classmen have learned to avoid it.) I wonder if constant exposure to them has forced me to get back in tune with them or if my blatant immaturity is drawing them to me? Or conversely, maybe their maturity is drawing them to me? Or maybe it's just a case of like minds finding one another. I dunno. I just feel so weird about it. I don't feel as though I should be interested in forming close bonds with 18 year olds. I'm nearly 25. Shouldn't I want to hang with other 25 year olds? (Forget the fact that I don't even KNOW any other 25 year olds.) Maybe I'm just taking what I can get in terms of social stimulation? Naw...I genuinely like these people. I'd hang out with them no matter how old they were. Maybe I'm realizing that age doesn't matter as much as I thought. Hmm it's kinda nice to see beliefs change.
Pretty interesting development if you ask me. Seems at the moment that all the people I feel closests to or am developing a vested interest in fall between the ages of 17-19. There's Other Mike of course, and Victor, and Ana the cool lesbian I'm going to the movies with tomorrow (I hope I hope I hope.) And it's so weird because the older I've gotten the more I've tried to distance myself from teenagers. I mean by my senior year at Knox I was consciously avoiding the freshmen because I had no interest in their newly discovered immature college drama. I'd already been there, done that and wanted to associate with people who were just as jaded as me.
But now that I work at NYIT the majority of people I interact with on a daily basis are 18 and 19 year olds. (Only freshmen ever visit the library. Upper classmen have learned to avoid it.) I wonder if constant exposure to them has forced me to get back in tune with them or if my blatant immaturity is drawing them to me? Or conversely, maybe their maturity is drawing them to me? Or maybe it's just a case of like minds finding one another. I dunno. I just feel so weird about it. I don't feel as though I should be interested in forming close bonds with 18 year olds. I'm nearly 25. Shouldn't I want to hang with other 25 year olds? (Forget the fact that I don't even KNOW any other 25 year olds.) Maybe I'm just taking what I can get in terms of social stimulation? Naw...I genuinely like these people. I'd hang out with them no matter how old they were. Maybe I'm realizing that age doesn't matter as much as I thought. Hmm it's kinda nice to see beliefs change.
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Date: 2004-03-27 02:08 pm (UTC)Though I remember one night at Webster Hall. It was their Thursday Rock Night. They would have punk bands play in a little room off of the balcony of the main room. They would give the bands an unlimited guest list and more often than not me and my friend would go--since the bands playing were usually people we knew.
So anyway, I was 24 or so and me and my friend were there on a Thursday night and we left the little room and wandered out to a spot on the balcony overlooking the main dance floor. One story below us the floor teemed with white kids dancing to Pearl Jam's
"Evenflow."
My friend said, "You know, that's your generation down there."
I was outraged. I protested and felt hurt that he would say such a thing, but he was right. That was my generation down there, and that's why I was one story higher hanging with a bunch of 30somethings trying to figure out what the hell was going on with their lives and still playing music.
Now I'm a 30something trying to figure out what the hell is going on with my life and still playing music as well. I don't know if music is going to be my way out (and not relying on it), though it's a lot of fun anyway.
As for my friends...well, the few I have all seem to be around my age, give or take a few years, though there are some exceptions here and there.
Age doesn't matter, yet sometimes it does. I mean, sometimes having the same attitude towards things defies age, but even when that is the case, with age comes perspective, or lack of it.
I'm not sure what I"m talking about anymore.
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Date: 2004-03-28 04:19 pm (UTC)Like the really hott boy I have a crush on just turned 23, but he still acts like a freshman in college, compared with Steph's boyfriend, who's also 23 but acts his age.
Or my 20 yr old sister compared with the people on my LJ friend's list who are also 20 & seem so much older than my sister
and most of my friends in law school are older than me but none of them seem like it