Comments on: Peacebang Celebrates Natal Day

By: Chalicechick

Chalicechick — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:24:43 +0000

I think Robert Bly wrote a book on pretty much exactly that subject. It was called “the sibling society” or some such.

By: PeaceBang

PeaceBang — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:08:43 +0000

Hi Chalice Chick, interesting comment. When you mentioned the notion that “the kids are growing up so fast,” what occurred to me was that, with our current infantilizing obsession with “working out” childhood issues, seeing each other as perpetually “wounded children” and with so much of our population living at home and depending on mom and/or dad economically well into our thirties, I’m not sure we’re growing up at all!

By: Chalicechick

Chalicechick — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:05:25 +0000

First off I do think that life is getting better. After all, I’m 26. Years ago, I would have been most of the way to death. That would really suck as life is just now starting to get really interesting.

It’s funny, people talk today about kids “growing up too fast,” but that speed seems like it would have been even more appropriate when the kids were halfway to death at 20.

Of course, in some countries in Africa, 26 is still halfway there.

I’ve noticed in the past that only artists and scientists are seriosuly worried about getting enoguh wotk done before they die…