on the young...now get off my lawn.

[acroyear]

Lance Mannion: Falling in love with a life of adventure when the grown-ups want you to go into accounting:

We don’t do adolescence well in this country. I don’t know if it’s done well anywhere. People haven’t had time to figure it out. It’s only been a hundred years or so that most teenagers weren’t already at what would be their life’s work at age twelve.

Before that teenagers really were what we call them now to flatter them, young adults, and they didn’t spend the very little free time they had trying to distract themselves from boredom, they spent it dealing with exhaustion from fifteen hour workdays.

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[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

I can kinda relate to the kid. I also was a C student that didn't always read my literature assignments. While the author's postscript says, "Hey, he should read the book", I always found it hard to read books that didn't seem interesting to me. Doing what you are required to do is often tougher than doing what you want to do.

I wasn't nearly as creative with my free time. Tho, I wonder if I had the tools available to me back then that I do now if I would be creating AMVs. Certainly, I have a desire to do it now, with only time and the wherewithal to do it limiting me.