Eternal Childhood

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This thread has had some of the coolest posts! And it's reminded me to make my Lincoln Log cabin tomorrow. Thanksgiving is coming!

I am going to be a child forever. xD

I have been an adult all my life.

Well, I have model trains and a play with them once or twice in a year. Every time I pass by my preschool I feel I was there not far in the past. It's almost the same with elementary and nursery school. I have very strong affection to buildings, places, and objects of my past, especially form the time I was a kid/child. In a sense, I still depend on my parents. I see them almost every weekend, and I need their support. They give me food and even some money, too, besides their infinite, unconditional love.

I love playing with my model planes like I'm a five year old.

I get in a hyper child-like mood and make noises and annoy people and don't take things seriously.
I think when I've had a stressful day it's just good to release my inner child.

Around other adults I feel considerably younger. Like I'm still a bored 8 year old listening to the grown ups speak and waiting impatiently to go home. The only difference is I am capable of having a conversation with them...about conspiracy theories.

I've never really considered whether I'm an adult or not, I'm 28 so legally I'm an adult but how does that mean I should behave?

The gist I get from what other mum's my age do day to day is clean the house, cook, iron you know all that boring stuff, then they'll have some wine in the evening and watch soaps. They have dinner parties or go out at the weekend with their husbands or they have get together's with friends in which they drink, talk about men, soaps,gossip, make-up or whatever.

Wheras I do pretty much nothing all day (or I'll be web designing or writing), I clean when it gets a bit gross or we're expecting someone to come visiting. My husband does most of the chores like washing, cooking etc (he sucks at cleaning so I do that). I don't drink, I don't watch soaps, I play video games and watch movies and do random things like play board games or draw or write. To other mums that seems kind of childish but to me it doesn't, I just have different interests, some of which are more typical for younger people (like playing video games).

My husband and I also sometimes buy toys from our past, like he has a whole collection of TMNT and ghostbusters but we craftily get our daughter to like them too so nobody thinks we are weird She didn't like the furbies I got for her though, I also like japanese characters like hello kitty and my melody, luckily she does too. So we have lots of little kitty things like our house phone is a massive hello kitty that lights up. On top of our printer/scanner is a huge doll that look like some 1980's hoodlum, we have gomez and morticia teddies sitting on top of a pile of books. We have boxes and boxes filled with toys, statues, dolls, figures, teddies and all manner of things. We went through a phase of buying toy guns to shoot at each other but then we got bows and arrows, we all got hurt and it all got a bit much. Oh and the inflatables I bought for my daughter's party 53 inflatables in such shapes as lollipops, baseball bats, minnie mouse etc we had great fun chasing each other around the house whacking each other with them before party day.

Oh and has anyone else noticed how awesome today's toys are? when I was little I'd have killed for some of the toys of today!

I never fully grew up.
I still enjoy thundering around on a 200mph motorbike as I did when I was a teenager.

Can I just take this moment to thank everyone at WP for responding to my post. It's good to hear from people who are quite similar to me. I never imagined I would ever find this in my life but now I have I don't feel so lonely any more.

My log cabin is up! My girlfriend agrees with me that this is the most architecturally interesting one I've built so far.

As I went along, I realized I didn't have enough logs to make a freestanding barn, so I made an attached garage. I put our stuffed horse and chicken in there. They barely fit, but it's amusing to see them. I figure, with the animals so close, the pilgrims can look right out their window to see what they're doing. I don't know where the pilgrims are, though, so I'm suspecting they ate them! Things usually go the other way around on Thanksgiving... I guess it's the "Food of the Gods" Thanksgiving this year!

I've heard today's Lincoln Logs are too small to fit with the older sets. Too bad. I wouldn't mind having some more. At least they're not being made of plastic, as they were for a while. Maybe I'll buy some more one day, just so I can have a few out-buildings, like that freestanding barn and a wood shed. Maybe even an actual outhouse!! ! We have no kids, and my niece and nephews aren't over here much, so no pretense. The toys are for us.

Being a child is not much fun. Playing like a child when you're an adult rocks! It doesn't matter if it's toys or just the way you joke around. You should hear some of the conversations my girlfriend and I have had while driving down the road. After 11 years together, she keeps up pretty well.

I am a kid, but that dumb birth certificate says I'm 43. I still like to play in the dirt, only now it's with motorcycles or with a 53,000-pound Caterpillar bulldozer; not radio-controlled dirt bikes or a Tonka bulldozer.

Charles