When do you become an adult? Some say 18.. I say you're an adult when you are able to provide the material means (income) to support yourself in the world - when you make enough money in your chosen field, whatever it may be, to pay all your own expenses. You can afford the rent on your own place and pay the electricity, water, and sewer bill. You pay your own car payment, car insurance, gasoline, groceries, toiletries, hair cuts, makeup, clothes, laundry costs, medical insurance - doctor co-payments and prescriptions, and your own telephone bill. And if there's any money left over, you pay your own entertainment expenses - eating out, movies, and whatever else you have in mind. When you can do all that, provide completely for your own material needs, without resorting to borrowing, begging. stealing or prostituting yourself, you're an adult, and not before. You're not an adult until you can stand on your own and support yourself in this world. And age has very little...
I’ve had people ask me how I’m doing. Honestly, sometimes I just don’t know what to say in response. It depends on when you catch me. Frankly, the best times are when I’m talking to someone besides myself…. especially when it’s not about how I’m doing. So if you’re over in my hood, hit me up. First and foremost, it does not seem like I’ve been alone now for over five months. On the other hand, it’s been forever since I saw him, touched him, held him, heard his voice. And I think of him and his absence constantly… Still, it’s getting a LITTLE less difficult to move through the days. (The nights, that’s different…) I never know when it’s going to hit me - scooping dog food into bowls in the morning, paying bills at my computer, sitting in the parking lot of the grocery store, pet store, post office or drugstore… or in the middle of my living room. It feels a bit like walking along the beach, gentle breeze, warm sun, surf at my feet when SWOOOOSH… with the force of a tsunami...
I remember the first time I ever saw a black panther live and in 'person' at the zoo in Tyler. He was gorgeous - a magnificent creature of the feline species... And he was confined to a cage. I'll never forget him. This majestic creature lived in a concrete and metal cage. I don't remember the dimensions, but I do remember thinking that he was probably 6 feet from head to where his tail began, or so it seemed. His cell was about 1-1/2 times his body length - for simplicity's sake, let's say 10 feet. There was an upper deck and a lower deck, both concrete, neither more than 4 feet wide. And this majestic feline, he paced. His size and stature didn't allow him to turn around in the tiny, enclosed space to which he was confined. Instead, he paced the length of the lower deck; soundlessly leapt to the upper deck and turned; then paced the upper deck. Descending from upper to lower again was not quite so soundless. The pure size and strength of his body ...
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