(17:37:24) Jvar: Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being an adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis
(17:38:20) Skennedy Work: That is very nice.
(17:38:23) Skennedy Work: and touching
(17:38:37) Debra: It immediately made me think of you
(17:40:51) Debra: You have taught me much about embracing silliness, and in doing so, you’ve reminded me how I loathe the thought of “growing up and acting my age.”
(17:43:55) Debra: Do you know that you are a big part of the reason that I now sing so that people can hear me?
(17:45:28) Skennedy Work: No, I didn’t
(17:45:35) Debra: *nod*
(17:46:14) Debra: I love to sing, but I’m so afraid of being offensive when I do. And when I’m singing and I start to second guess myself, I think of you…and sing a little louder
(17:46:32) Skennedy Work: Wow.
(17:46:36) Skennedy Work: *beams brilliantly*
~ by Skennedy on January 20, 2006.
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Debra: you’ve reminded me how I loathe the thought of “growing up and acting my age.”
(17:37:24) Jvar: Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being an adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis
(17:38:20) Skennedy Work: That is very nice.
(17:38:23) Skennedy Work: and touching
(17:38:37) Debra: It immediately made me think of you
(17:40:51) Debra: You have taught me much about embracing silliness, and in doing so, you’ve reminded me how I loathe the thought of “growing up and acting my age.”
(17:43:55) Debra: Do you know that you are a big part of the reason that I now sing so that people can hear me?
(17:45:28) Skennedy Work: No, I didn’t
(17:45:35) Debra: *nod*
(17:46:14) Debra: I love to sing, but I’m so afraid of being offensive when I do. And when I’m singing and I start to second guess myself, I think of you…and sing a little louder
(17:46:32) Skennedy Work: Wow.
(17:46:36) Skennedy Work: *beams brilliantly*
~ by Skennedy on January 20, 2006.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: debra, im comments, remember me