confession

[sylvan_child]

Sometimes I hate being a child. Nobody takes me seriously. Everybody sees me as "too young" for what I want.

Then when I complain, they tell me to grow up. To act like an adult so I'll be respected like one.

......I can't.

I am a Kokiri. Kokiri are the children of the forest. They never grow up. They are children forever.

I can never grow up.

Am I going to be held back forever because I'll never be an adult?

Comments

[morefishplz.livejournal.com]

Being an adult and acting like an adult are two very different things. Growing up ain't just something physical, it's very much a mental thing. Jus' cause your body doesn't change doesn't mean your mind and feelings don't.

If y'wanna be treated like an adult y'gotta act like it, simple's that. An' yeah, some people'll still treat ya like a kid cause y'look like one. But lots of people go on actions an' not faces. Whinin' about it ain't actin' like an adult, an' it's not changin' anyone's opinion of ya. If you want people t'change how they think of ya, you gotta change how ya act.

[sylvan-child.livejournal.com]

But I don't know how. Nobody tells me. Is it something you learn when you're old enough? If I never age, how will I know?

[morefishplz.livejournal.com]

It's all gotta come from experience, which's got nothin' to do with agin' so much as payin' attention an' learnin' from what happens around ya. Bein' brave all on yer own, not runnin' away and standin' up for what ya believe in... Not complainin' about the little stuff... Jus' cause no one tells ya don't mean you can't learn.

[x-makube-x.livejournal.com]

Did something specific happen?

I think you'll learn in time what it means to "grow up". Believe me, I know it isn't something to rush. Best you can do is just ignore those that hassle you and just be yourself. Just because you're a child doesn't mean you can't be mature. And just because someone's an adult doesn't mean they are mature.

[sylvan-child.livejournal.com]

It's been on my mind for a while.

Maku-kun...you don't think I'm too young to ____ Tsukasa-kun, do you?

[x-makube-x.livejournal.com]

Not at all.

[bunraku-broken.livejournal.com]

Doing as adults do is not being an adult. Having a body that ages is not being an adult.

To grow, to truly grow, it is within.

...You will understand in time.

[fealty-to-none.livejournal.com]

It seems you merely want all the privilege of adulthood and none of the responsibility...

[twilimistress.livejournal.com]

Can you really blame her?

[profdragonboy.livejournal.com]

You're more 'grown up' than you'll ever know, Saria. You're strong and brave, and I'm proud of you. ^_^

[sylvan-child.livejournal.com]

Really?

[fay-the-mage.livejournal.com]

Is this about Tsukasa-kun?

[sylvan-child.livejournal.com]

......yes.

[fay-the-mage.livejournal.com]

Is he not taking you seriously or is it someone else?

[sylvan-child.livejournal.com]

He didn't do anything. Wakaba-neechankun said that I was too young to ____ him.

[fay-the-mage.livejournal.com]

But it's not her dating him, it's you.
What do you think? Are you too young?

[sylvan-child.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Momma said that if I can feel this way about him, then I'm not too young. But when somebody else says that I am...I don't know anymore.

[fay-the-mage.livejournal.com]

Since your body will never grow up, nobody will be able to tell when you're an adult or when you're a teenager at least.
Only you know yourself in that respect, so only you can judge wether you're too young to feel that for him or not.

[fannynpcs.livejournal.com]

Honey, you're not too young for Tsukasa. He is older than you, but you're not too young. If you're old enough to have these feelings, then it's fine. We ___ you (ah, so the word can't be written either...how strange), and we trust you enough to be careful.

Yes, some of your friends are going to say that you're too young. But they're not responsible for you, are they? I know it's hard, but don't let them get to you, sweetheart.

--Momma

[plaid-kitten.livejournal.com]

I take you seriously and I don't think you're too young to do anything you want, Miss Saria. I think you're a very strong person who knows more about the world than she thinks <3<3