. It grants one his or her identities, connections to others, opportunities and methods to escape from life. It's just this code or that code.

These thoughts came to me as I entered a code for one of many places that are locked to me via password. I didn't even give much conscious thought to it--it is simply perfunctory.

And then I think--even just fifteen years ago, there was nothing so similar as our technology of today.

The codes I was to remember as a child was just phone numbers and addresses--no passwords or anything of the sort.

Anything online was a lot more limited, and it wasn't...natural, so to speak, to access so much from so little as a simple code.

I guess my point is just...it hits me that from such a simple little thing can we truly realize how different life is year by year. Maybe this is just some strange form of nostalgia.

Maybe I'm getting old (evne though I'm not...), or maybe this is just my brain at almost 3 in the morning.

You're younger than I am, Kaze, you're not allowed to call yourself old. :|;

/feels old now, too...

I feel old all the time, though ;_;

DON'T REMIND ME.

Well, not all the time, but things just make me feel old. Maybe it's because it's like "where has the time gone?!"

Seriously...

Our radio started playing that one LMFAO song and then I had war flashbacks to 2011.

That was four years ago, man.

FOUR YEARS AGO.

Hahah! Goodness...

And remember, it was a little over two years ago that the "world was supposed to end."

And now I'm living alone in an apartment and it's just like...I'm a responsible adult now?!?! When did this happen? I don't want to pay taxes in a year!

I still don't feel like an adult.

But you're not THAT much older than me, Moro! =P

I do and I don't...it's...odd.

Never mind that I just graduated college with a Bachelor's degree and I have some debt as a result.

Like I am and I look back at kidsI mean teensand I call them kids.

THAT'S SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU ADULT-ISH but it doesn't.

Really, I think...what made a difference for me was the fact...I don't see my old friends as much anymore =/ We just all went to different schools all across the state or to different states

Yeah... I mean, the only people I really keep in regular contact with is everyone here on Plurk... XD;

My friend from high school, she is married and just had her first child last year.

And I used to hang out with two in particular ALL THE TIME...like EVERY week! And now...I'm in an apartment on the other side of the state studying to be a better adult get a job and stuff...

Oh god ;_;

THAT makes me feel old as hell, yo.

And then there's people from my HS class getting married...

YEAH, I KNOW, RIGHT?

heck, a friend I met online is married! And has a kid! And is younger than me!!!

By like...about two yearsish!

Said friend from high school is 3 years younger than me, I know that feel.

All too well.

Just... damn.

Ooh... yeah. It's...yeah.

Where is the time and people going.

I didn't ever use to "keep track" of time. Growing older never made much a difference year by year, but now...

Man, I shouldn't feel so much older each year. I'm only 22! I'm not old!

But I suppose...it's just I feel comparatively old when put against how I used to be? It's terrifying in its own way.

/looks back 6 years ago...

. . . y e p . . .

Time, she waits for no one...

Certainly not! ...And then I look back and I realize...I still do some of the same things, but it is so different now.

Like, I have roleplay logs back from 2007...

NO, NO.

And I started to roleplay...at least a year before that.

DO NOT START WITH ME AND ROLEPLAY, NOW I'M FEELING OLD AS ALL HELL.

I WAS TWELVE OR SO WHEN I BEGAN

TOO LATE, MORO

/sobs

god, I was... 17 when I started RPing proper

I'M OLD

It's been a part of my life...for half of it.

Oh my god.

(Whoops we're having young-life-crises.)

Oh no

Hell, most people get into RP when they're 13-14.

I think actually I started in 2005 or 2006.

I WAS OLD EVEN BEFORE I STARTED RP'ING

xD

I have done this crap for more than half of my life...

...But it's still fun!

And at least things make more sense now...and we write better. Ish.

I don't know, I feel like I understand less than when I was younger...

XD;

I do think I got better at this writing thing, though.

8U

Eheh, sorry, Joh! ...I get introspective sometimes when I'm tiredish or when it's late, I guess. :l; And even the simplest things cause me to think or be amazed.