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Soon as the fleeting celebration of my debut ended in 2005, I’ve seen adolescence and birthdays in a whole different light. Now, instead of being thrilled over birthdays, I began to dread the coming of the month of September. No less the16th of the aforementioned month. Not that I’ve been transformed into a birthday Grinch or whatsoever, but the notion of having to add another year to the counting of my age, and the responsibility that is affixed with having to face yet another year of existence just scares the hell out of me.
Post-debut birthdays to me invariably suggest the unfettering of every child-at-heart and easygoing folks abominable nemesis --- the unseen ghost of maturity. What is it about debuts? Whoever thought about it, especially the maturity part must be punished!
Anyway, so everyone just expects the celebrant to evolve into some changed, levelheaded paragon instantly after the clock struck 12mn. And sadly, those everyone is largely composed of individuals who have so rigid and limited an understanding of what maturity actually is. More than refining the taste in fashion sense and favorite TV channel, maturity is in fact, a type of perspective that one arrives at with knowing the ways of the world, and not by mere aging.
Mostly, it’s about making life-shaping decisions and countering the obstacles that come along with it, no matter how sticky the situations get in a the most reasonably-composed approach. For the record, yes it’s about changing. And changing, similar to majority of metaphysical connotations isn’t imposed but rather it is realized. Meaning it is not something that is visible nor tangible that could be taught in the academe yet we know for sure it happens, albeit in unique progression among all of us.
It’s not like there’s a rule stating that when a so-called ”prescribed maturity age” is reached WE HAVE TO BE MATURE OR ELSE, SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. Ungoverned by laws, maturity therefore can be reached anytime by anyone during what they deem as the most ideal and appropriate time for them to do so. Could be during Christmas or New Year or maybe after a very bad break-up. Anytime. Not solely during birthdays.
So to all my birthday well-wishers, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the good words and the commemoration but please, save those birthday-wishes of maturity to yourselves. :D
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| here I am rambling about maturity and this is what I did to the boyfriend's bod while he's asleep. bwahahahaa! |
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