Okay, I'm going to lay out a timeline.
Ages 1-3: You learn to walk, talk, and wear diapers.
Ages 3-5: Preschool, let the learning process begin.
Ages 5-12: Welcome to elementary school. Most of us lean the cruel lesson of those bigger than us: those stronger than us. (unless you're me and that learning process got blocked. Resulted in a few black eyes.)
Ages 12-14: Middle school, the huge popularity contest begins. If you're not in the popular crowd, let the teasing begin!
Ages 14-18: High school. The big ol' sludge ball of fun. People start drugs, driving, sex, partying and much much more. And these people are our future?!
Ages 18-26: College(most of us anyways). The golden years.
Ages 24-65: WORK. You join the world with the other worker bees, cracking jokes, drinking coffee, and falling asleep earlier than your teenager.
Ages 65-R.I.P- Retirement, you walk, talk and wear diapers until you die.
THATS LIFE
And yet people look at me funny when I spout out the list of things I want to do. The truth is, we get one life. Rather than join the sheep who follow the others, baa-ing and grazing where the others do, I want to be something like a tiger(NOT a cougar). I want to make something of myself. I want to be one of the people who leads people down the path of adventure. I don't ever want to have to say, "Man, I wish I had chosen to do that", because the second I do that is part of my life wasted away. So let us all live life to the fullest, and with minimal regrets.
STICK THAT IN YOUR GRATER AND CHEESE-IT!
~Ashi