The other week, someone said that I act like a teenager and it wasn’t meant as a compliment. If they wanted to hurt me, or hinder me with that, they will be deeply disappointed to hear that they have helped me. In a lot of ways, I do act like the teenager who grew into me. And I like that. This is why.
As a teenager I was pretty chill and why wouldn’t I be.
It was the early 80’s before social media, the internet and cell phones. Back then, if someone had your phone number, they called your house and you spoke to them if you wanted to provided the line wasn’t busy. Today few people have my phone number and I like that. Apparently, that’s a problem.
Smoking then was an on-again-off-again thing until I became a smoker. This March I will be nicotine free for four years. Watching my weight and exercising were for other people. Now I (reluctantly) do both. Vitamins were things one of my persuasive girlfriends took by the handful and for the most part unsuccessfully tried to push on me. They and powered something-or-others are now part of my daily routine.
Partying was part of growing up. Beer and hard liquor, if you could get them, were always welcomed yet never as near as one would have liked. Drugs for me were limited to pot, oil, hash and acid because I read in several books that they are none addictive. I haven’t touched any of the above for just about 30 years. I still drink, yet considering the circumstances I am unclear as to why I am not drinking more.
I had a bank account and was financially illiterate. Now I have more accounts, a credit score and can pass a financial literacy. I still don’t have a regular job or stable income, but I am not alone. According to the Toronto Dominion Bank, 4 out of 10 Canadians don’t so I guess the gig-economy is not going away. If you don’t believe me, TD has a commercial.
If I didn’t want to get involved in what I would, and still, consider ridiculous, I read. It kept me sane and away from the trouble-makers. You know the insecure wannabes, drama queens, and know-it-alls who need to be the centre of attention all the while claiming to be the authority of everyone else’s life because theirs is empty.
If you ignore them that’s a problem. If you call them out, that’s another. From my experience as a teenager, the best thing was to disappear. That way they can drive each other crazy. As a teenager, I didn’t waste my time wading through other people’s bull shit, and haven’t for decades so I am not going to do it now. Apparently, that’s a problem.
I am young at heart and I think that has me looking younger than I actually am, but I do not act like a teenager even if I don’t always dress for my age.
Thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
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