lesson number | Two Stages

Lets look at a couple of stages of life.

First, think back to high school. Do you remember when you were a freshman? I do! If you were like me you would look at the seniors and think, “man they are big,” I also thought that they were so much more mature or together than me. I thought, “When I am senior, I will really be different.”

It’s kind of funny but one thing I vividly remember is thinking that these big, mature seniors were all having sex! Boy, I couldn’t wait to be a senior myself!

Well, low and behold before you could blink an eye, I was a senior myself! A funny thing happened though. I didn’t feel “all together” nor did I feel big, and I certainly was not having a lot of sex!

Now lets look at another stage of life. Think about how you viewed (or view) people who were 23 when you were 18 years old. Did the 23-year-old person seem old? I know that when I was 18 and I would go out with a group of people and someone in that group was 23, boy did I think they were old! But just like the previous stage (14-18 years old), I was 23 myself faster than I could imagine. A funny thing happened though, when I was 23 I really did not feel too much different than when I was 18 or 19. Sure, I could do many things that I couldn’t (legally at least) at 18. In general though, I did not have a metamorphosis. I did not become a different person. If I was irresponsible, and unsure about my future at 18, those aspects of my life had not changed.