June 4, 2012
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We're all frogs sitting in a pot of water as it slowly comes to a boil.
Everything changes, always, but it tends to happen too slowly for us to notice.
Big events like milestone birthdays and weddings and first times leave us disappointed and a little confused because we don't feel any different afterward.
But maybe that's because the actual changes happened without our noticing, gradually.
And all of a sudden we're 22 years old, with a full-time job plus a couple of part-time gigs in which we're expected to keep order over a group of teenagers and, by some miracle, actually teach them something in the process. Inside we're still scared children fumbling around with no idea what we're doing.
But somewhere along the way, the temperature rising too slowly for us to notice, we became grown-ups, slowly and yet all at once.
