True story, I’m telling you! I have to be very careful and do my best to always use my indoor face least it get permanently stuck in some kind of awkward scowl. I don’t think wrinkles have anything to do with gravity, they are just caused by a lifetime of rolling your eyes, raising your eyebrows, and the strain of not giving people that mom-look.
Seriously, you’re going to pour all that shampoo down the toilet?! You’re like, 67 years old now! Not sure why I always pick that magic number in my head, but I constantly have to remind myself that 67 is mature and grown, therefore adulting is required.
These are scars left over from being the eldest child in a toxic world. Act like you’re incapable and incompetent and it’s not your fault and I’ll probably get sucked in, I’ll take the bait, at least for a few moments.
We are living in this world where “adulting” is actually a thing. Like, people want stickers and awards and constant admiration for doing it! It’s perceived as being so unusual, so burdensome, it’s now some kind of virtue. Grown people will actually announce, “I showed up on time,” as if your job is to go stick a little red star on their ice cream chart. Good news, now if nobody bites anyone this week, we just might get to have ice cream on Friday!
This is the easy part too, because running in the background of life is also this keen awareness of things happening on a global scale just outside your line of vision, war in the Ukraine, potential vaccine injuries, people now lining up for their forth booster, a huge addiction epidemic, homelessness everywhere, and nobody being held accountable for anything, ever.
I completely understand why one might just want to run off, disengage with humanity, and become a light house keeper on a deserted rock way out in the ocean somewhere. The struggle is real.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Yepper. The struggle is indeed real. In the past couple of years, I personally have had more moments of what you describe in that last paragraph than ever before in my life; and I will be 67 this year, too. Good thing I know which side my toast is buttered on – i.e., the side where the King of the universe still reigns in majesty.
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Amen, it’s so good to know what side your toast is buttered on! God is good and Jesus is still on the throne. 🙂
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It’s a gender thing.. female to be exact… to assign some level of “adulting”. For as old as I am (nearing the age of the Great Pyramid) the eternal phrase still resonates, even directed at me to this day… “Why don’t you grow up?” I mean, women never even use that line to each other. My mother never used it on my sister… yet my sister used it on me. Even to this day I get that phrase used at least once a week toward me. Women have declared themselves the sole judge of a man’s maturity level… which we all know “maturity” is a subjective judgement call.
Then there’s the advanced application of that… the CONDESCENDING “Why don’t you grow up?”…. as if there is some extra value assigned by the tone of delivery… the smugness.
So it surprises me little when a female expands this concept to the entire society that surrounds her. I don’t admonish you alone on this. My own significant other has been drifting toward directing her judgmental “maturity” opinions onto the world. Now.. there are some exceptions for her. Paul McCartney is one.
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You have a way of hitting the nail on the head!
If I was living my 20 something life, now, I seriously wonder if I would ever have escaped the “victim mentality” and “blame game”. Well, God was, is, and always will be ready to deliver us from ourselves…when we’re ready, right? I just don’t know how ready I would have been, in this atmosphere of “anything goes, but the consequences are always someone else’s fault”.
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“and nobody being held accountable for anything, ever.” Well, I half agree with you on this one, IB. I feel that you are more inclined to be held to account if you’re on the right side of the aisle. For God’s sake, Biden says things, the the administration walks it back, and Biden doubles down on what he said. What did Richard Pryor say? You gonna believe me or your lyin’ eyes? Something like that. 😉
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The look on the face of that cat made me laugh! Thanks! I needed that! Some of the conversations that I have had lately with certain people (one in particular who thinks he’s certain about his tarot card beliefs 🙄) have definitely produced that cat’s look on my own face! 😂. And, I’m 67!
I love how your posts often make me smile, and giggle. The serious issues going on in life and around the world can get us down. We all need to laugh at life, sometimes, and laugh about the antics of others (when not in front of them!) in order to keep our own sanity. Thanks IB!
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Very relatable. I particularly love the last paragraph as that’s been a recurring theme for me over the past year. I love to build one of those earth homes off the grid and dwell in there, for a while maybe; and that’s what my souls feels like doing. Nowadays I have a hard time telling the difference between “showing up and facing the truth” and “buying into the BS.” So any no to the system is deemed to be an escape and not so adult to do. Pretty confusing, and perhaps that’s designed this way.
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Well, well, well, let someone more mature give you some advice.
Mmm, let’s see, I’m 70, but I’m still getting the eye rolls, tge just grow up question, Mmm I can’t think of anybody.
Good post Gabrielle.
I didn’t know we were so close in age.
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Your plan of action sounds very close to the one taken by Peter Pan.
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LOL! Never Never land is calling. Tinkerbell lives there, too! And there are pirates! Bonus! 🙂
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I do believe in fairies!
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IB you actually made me laugh really loud in my head not out loud because it is 4:30 in the morning and not because I don’t understand your message, but because I do. You see I have been awake all night fighting with a 5 month old insane kitten that keeps tearing up my kitchen and yanking one of my plants out of it’s pot. She is not appreciative of the fact I spent weeks bottle feeding her at all. She reminds me of my human daughter ironically. I laughed because what a message to read after a night like this.
Ah sometimes it is the little things but I can say at 60 I have very few wrinkles, but make up for it in grey hair well white really not grey at all. I have come to the conclusion that at 60 being broken bodily I don’t want to adult anymore. I want to go back to watching cartoons, coloring in coloring books, and playing with toys. Someone else can chase the kids, the cats in the kitchen, and worry about wars, shots, boosters, and anything else related to adulting.
Today when I wake up from whatever sleep I manage to get I am playing video games all day I am not adulting my man can chase the insane kitten who will probably sleep all day. I am not cooking, cleaning, or anything else.
Sorry for invading your blog this morning with this madness, but somehow I feel you will understand.
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LOL! I totally understand. Try to get some rest. 🙂
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I figured you would LOL! The little imp is at my feet now as I type this and I am hoping she will sleep tonight. I did get some sleep and I did play video games.
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And you added even more amusement! I’m shaking my head at that ‘5 month old insane kitten.’
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Oh I promise you she is quite insane. An example she will race into the living room all fuzzed out like there is a pack of wolves after her. She will come to a screeching halt somewhere on my body ( I am the one screeching in pain) she will twitch looking around and Ii swear at times she just shrugs and curls up on my lap, start purring, and fall asleep. So yup she is quite insane as a matter of fact her and Alice would get along great.
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