Do You Recall Being 18 and Self-Assured

Jules

Jules

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When I was listening to an 18 year GK, I recognized the self-assurance and surety of his knowledge. It brought back memories of knowing much more than my parents but being insecure with others in my age group. And I definitely knew more than my parents.

Were we all like this?
 

As far back as I can remember, I've always felt nervous and worried about what the future would be bring. And now that I'm old and terrified of being even older (and especially being in a skilled nursing facility being taken care of by caregivers who possibly hate Boomers--a lot of those younger than us do in fact understandably hate Boomers--), it's even worse.

I wish I had someone to talk to who'd understand--everyone here on SF are great and sympathetic but it'd be nice to have someone IRL too. I did try counseling a few years back when I was trying to deal with taking care of my mother in her final days and my angry, narcississtic sister and told the counselor I was basically looking for a support group but the counselor just correctly told me there were no support groups other than AA and NA around here (and that was before Covid; it's worse now). She also told me I should just go to church. When I told her I was an atheist, she frowned and took a step back from me. So no help there.
 
I wanted to do things the older kids did. Had a fake ID to get in to bars, dragging the main and staying out late.

All I remember my Dad saying to me was "don''t rush it n---y"

Come 'hell or high water' I was going to do it! lol
 
At 18, I was in the top ten of my graduating high school class. A few months later, a college freshman at a good, competitive school finding that he had to work hard just to be average. Life humbles us all.. 🤔
 
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