12 and 13

It's weird. It really is. When your twelve, you feel like a kid. You are treated like a kid. But you want to be treated like an adult. If you could write like Tolkien, or draw like Van Gogh, then you were considered to be very talented. If you had a big vocabulary, then you were considered to be smart. If you were the MVP of your baseball team, you where considered athletic. Everything is great.

Then you turn thirteen. You mine as well have just turned thirty. Even if you were Van Gogh, or Tolkien, you'de just be considered as okay. Suddenly, your being treated like an adult, if you were shy, or didn't want to talk, the only excuse you had is now gone. You can't say it's just because your twelve, because you aren't twelve any more. You are thirteen. Your suddenly just an average person again. Nothing you do is extrodinary, it's just normal.

That's what it feels like to me. Now that I'm thirteen, it feels like more is expected of me. It feels like I've just jumped out of childhood, and into adulthood in one night. Even if that night was spent in a hotel, eleven hours by plane from home, everything seems to change. I talked to my friend about this, she thinks the same thing. When you're twelve, your so young, and then you turn thirteen, and your a lot older. It seems alot older. The only difference is by one number. One. It's weird. I almost want to be twelve again. I aske one of my friends what it was like to be thirteen, and she said: 'Enjoy being twelve because thirteen sucks.' Let that be a warning to all you twelve-year-olds. IT SUCKS! Take advantage of it. Don't look forward to it. Because it will be different, it will.