Being 19
Booooooo Birthdays
First of all, I’ve never been a big birthday person. I’d rather not you leave those long birthday messages on my voice mail. I don’t need the birthday songs, but I do appreciate the text and MAJOR Facebook comments, but then I kind of like the fact that no one knows on Twitter. I’ve never took my birthday as something serious. I stopped having a real “someone else pays the expense for you birthday” after I turned 16 after my Sweet 16 in Las Vegas. At 17, I took off work and bought myself a white purse because my little sister had lost my previous one at a wedding. At 18, I applied for a credit card that I got approved for and started my music publishing company. At 19, I bought myself a Juicy Couture watch, a new phone because I needed an international phone, another Zune because my other one was full, some shoes, and currently waiting to go to London for study abroad in two weeks. My babe keeps asking me what I want but I don’t want anything else…we’ll at least not to my knowledge right now. Lol. I’m content with life; I don’t ask for much…well at least I don’t think so. I don’t ask for gifts or anything because I see this as a regular day. I eat my favorite apple pie a la mode instead of that traditional boring birthday cake with the o so original vanilla ice cream for my birthdays.
17 or 25
Second of all, I’d rather be 17 or 25 all my life, no in between. I liked the age 17, so young…but people treat you like your dumb. I had been helping people in the studio, had a songwriting license with a performance rights organization, modeled, was a background actress for Nickelodeon, was in college, and people still looked at me like I had never done anything. At least I know I’m being treated young and dumb because I am very young. But at 19 this is annoying. I’m about to graduate school next year and I still just looked at like I’m a “ditz”. Now 25,…not to young, not to old, but you are taken seriously. Hell, you can even rent a car, should have bomb credit history by then, should have finished school with at least one degree and have a job, car, and a place to call your own. Some may even have a partner and one child but that’s not what I’m worried about. What I’m worried about is at this age, you should be sort of established into your career and building a name for yourself; i.e. branding yourself within your market, and actually being taken serious. Now that’s what I really want. 19…just an insignificant age. You get nothing new, just an added on number! But you have to go through 19 in order to get to the other ages I guess.