Pop songs have long advised listeners to stay young and die before you get old. In popular American culture, growing up is often seen as a negative. But any urge to grow up has been blunted, whether by drugs and alcohol, or over-parenting, or simply genetics, and the end result is a character who conjures more of the bad memories of adolescence than the good ones. Obviously, such a guy has more issues than simple Peter Pan Syndrome. This “adult-escent” is the guy who stopped hanging out with you and your friends twenty years ago – right around the time you all got real jobs and steady partners – but who you still see around town occasionally, when you’re out for a drink with friends, and who invariably wobbles up to you and says “it’s been too long, man!” and asks, “how’s your kid?” – followed by, “oh, you have two now? I just never had time for a wife and kids – too busy,” and then introduces “my buddy, Chase,” who is 20 to 25 years younger than you, and who has been standing there touching his goatee repeatedly, twitchier than a nervous squirrel. In men, this usually manifests as a compulsory need to find someone/anyone to go out drinking with, who also has a connection to a coke dealer, and who especially won’t mind if you crash on his TV room floor a couple nights a week. Others find themselves in their twenties beginning to tire of their mom continually putting their good sweaters in the dryer, and realize that maybe the problem isn’t really with their mother.īut regardless of the actual age it happens, eventually, your best bet is going to be to embrace the reality that a) you’re going to have bills due each month b) you’re going to have to work a job(s) that pays you enough to cover those expenses and c) you’re going to enjoy (a) and (b) more if you find a close friend or friends to spend your time with.Īs a forty-seven year old, I am aware of several people around my age who are still desperately clinging to some winnowing thread of adolescence. Some folks – the FBLA types, who attend high school wearing business attire – are ready to move to grown-up-hood by the time they’re 14. That point will be different for everyone. “Hold on to sixteen as long as you can/ changes come around real soon make us women and men.” – John Cougar (nee Mellencamp)Īt a certain point in life, you have to grow up. WOULD BE HIGHER IF – I can’t imagine a scenario in which it would be higher than 86, but I do love it! But I mean in a really, really good way! It’s fun and energetic and full of happiness. IN A NUTSHELL – 90s Japanese dance pop that sounds like the soundtrack to an Austin Powers movie if it starred Hello Kitty instead of Mike Myers. Producers: Maki Nomiya, Yasuharu Konishi, K-taro Takanami
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