Tonight, we are young.

So you know how everyone says that as people get older, they are wiser? Well, I'm only 18, but I think I've learned something that's made me a little bit wiser about getting older. I used to think that changing from a child to an adult meant that you went from one completely different mindset to another. However, now I don't think that's the case. Take a house, for instance. I used to think that our thoughts and beliefs were the foundation and each stage of life was a different level starting with childhood, but now I have learned that childhood is the foundation, and our thoughts, beliefs, and deepest emotions stem from there and grow as we move through life. We still feel like children sometimes, even when we put on a suit and go to a job interview, or become parents ourselves, not that I've had that experience yet, but I've seen it in others. We just do the best we can with what we started with as children and have learned since then. I guess the reason why I've figured this out is because I visited my family over thanksgiving and I realized that, even though I had a good time, holidays are different when the magic is gone and when you can actually interact with each member of your family. It sounds sad, but it really isn't. My cousins and I have grown up and we can now have real conversations with each other and our older relatives. We're not just kids that get the stories sugar-coated. However, even though we've all grown up, I still feel like the little kid I was sometimes. That's why it's hard to grow up sometimes, even though the future is exciting. Anyway, this was definitely super random, but I felt like writing.