I have a couple things to post about but I can’t because I am retarded and cannot figure out how to make my private post thing work. However, if I COULD have posted about these things it would have looked something like this but with far more detail;
I had lunch today with two people and one of them is in constant need of validation. She is not old enough to go to a bar yet, but she is older than the legal age to vote - and yet - she cannot do her own hair. I don’t fucking get it. Anyway, I cannot really get into detail here but it went something like, you don’t like my hair. why are you staring at my hair. does it look fine or good? on a scale of 1 to 10, what is it? will it look okay for dinner tonight? does it look as good as it does when you do it for me? if it looks fine why do you keep looking at it? are you sure it looks good? is it good or fine…
All through lunch it went on like this. I sat there, watching the exchange between mother and daughter and I thought to myself, thank god my kids aren’t like this. They are confident with their own skills and abilities. Hell, they won’t even let me do their hair for school anymore. And they are only 10 and 8. anyway, it is draining sometimes.
So Then:
We had a discussion about losing one’s virginity. I was ancient by today’s standards when I lost mine (22 and 9 months old). My second youngest sister was like, 13. My other sister lost hers on prom night, senior year. she also got knocked up the same night. My friend who is old enough to vote but not old enough to go to a bar officially became a woman a couple weeks ago. and she PLANNED it. I mean seriously, notes, lists, music, date planned it. which I find foreign really. I mean, I had ideas in my head as to how it would be and I never dreamed that when it was done and over with the first time I would say “that’s it? Do it again.” And I really never dreamed that as I drove home that day to shower and pick the grass and weeds out of my ass crack that I would be thinking things like “I can’t believe I waited for that.”