What is age to me?

To me, age is just a number. Just subtract the year it is now from the year you were born, and that's how old you are. I'm 18. Everybody gets so excited when when turn 18...I don't know why. I mean, yeah, you're an adult now...but sometimes that's not always a good thing. I couldn't wait to be treated like an adult when I was younger. Now, everything I say can be used against me and is always analyzed. When you're 18, you get to gamble, buy cigarettes, buy porn, and you're tried as an adult when you're in court. None of that to me seems fun. Of course, I went out to Jackpot for my 18th birthday and it was fun for a little while, because I wasn't gambling off my own money ha ha. I just think it's easy to get addicted to it as it is to get addicted to all of those things - smoking, gambling, porn, violence. It's o.k. being an adult, but it's not the greatest. There are a lot more responsibilities, and people expect a lot more from you now. I don't think anything fun really happens as you get older. I remember being excited to get my license and my own car when I was 16, but I got in a huge accident right after I got my license and now it's on my record for another year. It sucks having all of these responsibilities, that's why I don't think fun to get older and have more responsibilities. Right now that I'm 18, nothing is really going to happen until I get to be 21...then of course I can drink. But then it's o.k. in people's eyes to get drunk, then you have the drunk driving thing to watch out for and even if you have too much to drink and you're over the limit...then you have something else to watch out for. I don't think a lot of the things that come with getting older are important, some of them just plain suck.