one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed “kid” as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldn’t say “when i was a kid” anymore for example you HAD to say “when i was a minor” instead
Yup. So I’m 24 today. As of 1:06 AM. I guess it’s about time for a quarter-life crisis.
I was at an acting coach a while ago and I was filling out this little questionaire thingy in the waiting room. They ask for the range of what ages you could play. Thus far as a crappy little actor I’ve played a 30+ murder suspect on Law and Order, and I was in talks to play a 15 year old Oklahoma boy. I guess I figured that was my range so I wrote it down. Looking at those numbers though, it felt kinda weird. I feel like I could convincingly be either but nothing in between. Like I’m missing my 20’s and I’m not even halfway through them. You get a mortgage and you drive a Civic and you take your dog to the vet and pretty soon you find yourself going to bed at 11 and begrudgingly becoming a morning person. I guess in retrospect, 23 felt a lot more like what I thought 33 would feel like. I guess I’ll have to wait 10 years to know for sure. But then I feel like I’m still a little-ass kid in a lot of ways. I realized I’ve never seen the Godfather movies. Or like Caddyshack. Cause I’m a kid. And I have a lot more to do with my life. Like see the Godfather. And Caddyshack. And then there’s the fact that I’m a little dude at a towering 5'4…closer to 5'5…but I feel like when you’re as short as I am, if you’re really grabbing at those percentiles of an inch that’s just sad. I’d rather round down. But the point is I’ll always be looking up to everybody like when you’re a toddler. I mean, I can’t grow a beard yet. I shaved my sideburns a few months back and I got carded everywhere I went for a couple weeks. I guess it’s like how Yoda tells Luke his mind is never on where he is or what he’s doing. And I’m still young enough to think that’s a relevant analogy.