G=Growing Up
This was my first choice for ‘G’. I started to write about growing up, and then I remembered I had already posted something almost identical, back in early 2021. So I deleted the part I had started to write as a draft, and I am adding a link to the 2021 post instead. Most of you will have seen it before, so this will mainly be for new followers.
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It seemed as if time passed so slowly when I was young and now it’s just flying by. I want the reverse today, I don’t want to grow old so fast! Hugs C
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Exactly that, Cheryl. The months feel like weeks since I turned 60.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Never really thought about growing up (when I was at the ages when I should) I just drifted through. In fact I’m still a child at heart and enjoying every moment of it 😁😁
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Even when I worked with you, it was obvious you had definitely not grown up!
Cheers, Pete. 🙂
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I always wanted to be older too but going to Asia with my parents I found myself existing in a world almost exclusively of adults and I was always treated as one, until I came to the States aged 16 and my uncle treated me like a ‘kid”. It was culture shock. I think my inner kid vanished in there somewhere. Although…my aunt had a wicked sense of humour and was not above breaking a few rules. I never did the drug scene, the rock n’roll thing or hanging out with friends. It was a pretty weird way to grow up and I was resentful for a long time but all those adults are long gone and there is no one to please anymore which made it a lot easier to let go, which was liberating. Now, if I could just get some young doctor to not treat me like an old fossil…:)
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You seemed to have missed out on a lot in your youth, but I sense you are making up for that now, Carolyn. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I had some difficulties. But I also managed to do a few things which meant a lot to me and I knew real love for a time. It would not have satisfied everyone but to me it was everything. We still talk, whenever we can. Hardly anyone even knows about my life.
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The question is still our for me. What question? “Will I ever grow up?” Warmest regards, Ed
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Don’t do it, Ed. Stay as you are, and refuse to grow up! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I will!
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This is a very interesting series, Pete…looking forward to the rest.
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Many thanks, John.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I never mastered growing up. I wanted to be “of age” and out of the house. Grown up was way over the horizon.
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I spent much of my life wanting to be older, and the rest of it so far wishing I could have another chance to make a different decision.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Like you I couldn’t wait to grow up, but now sometimes I wish I could go back to my childhood, lol.
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Yes, I wonder if the constant pressure to grow up affected my childhood in some ways.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I think we were all like that – couldn’t wait to become older and independent.
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