You're not 15 anymore

Hi everyone,

Thee other day a friend of mine told me "you're not a teenager anymore"! It was quite a shock! I believed that I would be a teenager for all my life! However I started to think about my life at that time and now and I would like to share it with you:

Back in Teenage times (+/-15 y.o):
- back to school - for me there were nice times (good student) with very nice friends that are still in my life and heart
- live with my parents which were very nice BUT had their own rules such as "we will take you at midnight at your friend's house and don't even be 2 minuites late!".
- allways have to explain why, where, when and with whom each time we want to go out (even during the day).
- have to be there and allways eat what they are eating even it is not our cup of tea
- have to smoke in secret
- secret boyfriends
- no personal transportation mean
- nothing to do at home (no domestic tasks or very few)
- no worries about €€€ as we don't have and parents give it to us (after a very good explanation)

Now (about 12 years later):
- live by yourself - some rent to pay, food, all stuff for home to pay
- all domestic tasks are under your responsibilty
- smoke in front of everyone
- only cook (when you cook) what you like and at the time YOU want (even though lunch can be at 3 or 4pm)
- no problem to exit at midnight - noone to report to!
- Go out everytime you want, where you want, because you want and with the people you wish!
- you have your own car or your friend's one so easier to go out!
- you work

Resume: Why feeling sad about our teenage time if now we have more freedom, independance and we are the ones who really decide what to do of our free times??? of course financial aspect only depends from us and life is not really easy on that times but this is the price to pay for independance!

I am personnaly really but really happy not to be 14 anymore and to be able to make my own schedule without asking anmyone's permission!
27 is another way of saying FREEDOM!

Why?

Long time no see for a lot of reasons. One of them being lack of inspiration! I am not in a very good mood to write the kind of texts I usually write but I can not stay quite when I see stupid thinks happening!

Last WE as almost every week end or day, one young guy was shot because of a stupid reason: a car! Is there anyways any good reason to shoot someone?
Isn't there any other way to solve problems or diferences than violence? I can imagine that testosterone or any other hormone can be the reason of many fights but shooting someone? Should we now all leave with a gun because we never know???
Someone today was saying that when one shoots someone else it should suffer the same because being in jail is not a real punishment! Is it the solution? I don't believe so!!!
I want to believe that education should be the key of this situation! People gaining respect for the otrhers! Understand that not all means justify a aim.

Anyways I won't wright more just to say bye to João Paulo who used to work in the same company as I do and for this time, the news did not sound only like "one more accident/fight" to me but a real shock!