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At which point in our lives are we supposed to shed the inner-child of ourselves? With me, I’m not talking my 6-year-old inner child who just wants her mom sometimes, but I’m talking my unsure, ‘who am I?’ teenager-type-inner child. When is that going to go away? I thought it was gone for awhile, but then I stepped into the high school position and I’m constantly reminded of my 15-year-old self all day long. This is not to say that I didn’t like high school. Because I did. A lot. But when I stand in front of twenty teenagers at a time and then one starts to laugh at something, and then another, and soon you have a whole section of kids that are trying hard not to laugh at something that I just don’t get, I can’t help but wonder, “oh no, why are they laughing at me?” To be honest with you, when I was in high school and we were all laughing at something, 99% of the time it was the teacher. Which is why you can imagine my defensiveness towards the laughter. However, I was also the type of kid who always thought someone was laughing at me…even if they weren’t. So this is like a double-whammy for me. I’d just really like to shed my inner 15-year-old for awhile… I’d take my inner 20-year-old self anyday, though.
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Unfortunately, probably never.