18

so blogger tells me that this is my eighteenth post. That's fun and dandy and all those other adjectives, but it got me thinking about the number eighteen.

Who decided that when a person turned eighteen, they were mature/responsible enough to take care of themselves/take responsibility for themselves? How do you all of a sudden become an adult? It's not like we have a ritual/ceremony/trial that we must pass to verify our adultness (like spirit walks or something), we just... get a day older. But who picked 18 as the age where it's ok for us to be out past ten, driving whenever the hell we want to, voting for the future, getting drafted (do we still have that actually?), signing our own papers, stop going to the pediatrician, and all those other things?

I'm going to be eighteen in a couple months. And unless something huge happens between then and now, I do not think i'm going to be ready for all of that responsibility all at once.



but then again, it's probably not that big a deal