MEAD

It has recently dawned on me that everyday I wake up and almost every action I take serves, in part, to strip me of my youthful innocence. I feel closer and closer to becoming a true adult. It's not so bad. It's just... I feel like my time has expired on the good life and now I am on the cusp of just turning into something and living out the rest of my life, stuck. In a way, I have always wished to finally figure it out and be an "adult", but I really just enjoy the journey, the pondering of myself and learning how to exist and interact and be responsible, how to live and prosper and be happy. My future almost seems predetermined, graduate college, get a job, marry, have kids, grow old, impart wisdom/go senile, die.

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Here are some phrases I'd like to be able to say, in all honesty, before I die.
"That's it, send out the ninjas!"
"So then I had to kill my way to the second floor."