You'll never fossilize if you still give a shit, and some people are frozen at 17.

Dated this girl. Her stepmom had three brothers. One of them had a wife who was pretty hot. Like eight, nine years older than me, but pretty hot. And she'd like to have these "wisdom chats" with me. "when you're older" etc.

One day she was talking about the ruckus and racket of kids and said "you know, once you have kids you no longer listen to music. It's all just a racket and all you want is peace."

She was probably 28 at that point. And I looked at her, and nodded politely, and never really talked to her the same way again because no babe, that isn't getting older. That's all you. I celebrated my 30th birthday in the mosh pit at Ministry, along with a whole bunch of other fogeys who really oughtta have known better.

Something nearly no one understands is that teenagers are a modern invention. As in, "my grandparents didn't go to high school but neither did anyone else their age." My grandmother was giving me grief when I was seventeen because I didn't get to their house until about 9am, therefore I was sleeping in. My grandfather said "lay off the boy when you were his age you were married with two kids." If you're fifteen now, your parents' parents' parents worked the goddamn fields. They didn't worry about the fuckin' fish under the sea dance.