in the adult world

A few weeks ago I was dining with some friends at PF Changs for a friend's baby shower, when I had a shocking realization.  A group of high school students came into the restaurant looking all fancy schmancy and dressed up for the prom. One of my friends looked over at me and said, "Wow, doesn't that seem like forever ago." To which I thought, "Not really." And this is when it hit me that I actually felt more connected to the world where people were going to prom then the world where people are having babies (as you have been made keenly aware of in an earlier post!)

After our Bible Study last night I realized that there were some things, some social rules if you will, that I am going to have to relearn as I transition from the teen world to the real, adult world. In just a month from now I am going to have to learn how to eat, and dress, and talk, and text like someone who is 27 and not 17. Because in the adult world, I am pretty sure things don't work like they do in the teen world...

In the adult world, you can't actually eat pizza and toffee bars and ice cream pie for dinner. (A rule I should have learned a while back despite living in teen world...)

In the adult world, it is not acceptable to wear Nike shorts and a t-shirt any and every where you go. 

In the adult world, you aren't looked highly upon when you don't speak in complete sentences and the most common word you use in those fragments is "like."

In the adult world, you can't really get away with going to see every teen movie at least twice- secretly liking it, but publicly claiming that you only went for "work."

In the adult world, "work" won't include laying out by the pool, endless excursions to TCBY, and going to Six Flags. (I actually despise Six Flags, so won't really be sad to see this one go.)

In the adult world, people won't be interested in conversations where the topics include who is going to homecoming with who, and what stunts the cheerleaders did at the pep rally last Friday. 

In the adult world, you can't make announcements via text... ok, well maybe you can. But they probably can't start out with "Yo Yo Yo, whats up my peeps?" and then end with "Lylas". Can you imagine...."Yo, yo, yo, whats up my peeps? Meeting in the conference room at 10! Be there or be square! Lylas!"

Yes, I do send my Bible Study announcements like that or in poem form.

 So basically, I have a lot to learn and quite the transition ahead of me! 

On the upside, perhaps once in adult world, when I am standing with two 15 year olds and we run into someone's mom, that mom won't pat  me on the shoulder and say, "What's your name sweetie? I don't think I've met you before!"

Have a great day, my peeps! Lylas!

Oops, good thing I am not in adult world yet!