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.
