Daniel Jackson (danieljackson)
Melbourne, Australia
Co-host of ‘flop ya mac out’ and ‘Breakfast with Yo Mama’ podcasts, fallopian Intertube surfer, music maker and purveyor of silly things.
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how old r u?  Patricia Alemán
Recently turned 29. Each year, I keep getting older! And that fact is yet to cease being a fact.
Actually, I remember when I was a young teenager thinking, "Wow - 18 - imagine being 18! Crazy."
Then when I turned 18 I was thinking, "Shit - what's it going to like when I 30?! Imagine being 30!"
Well I'm almost there. A little bit wiser, more confident in some instances, with more experience under my belt, but a lot of how I feel as a person is still pretty much the same. It's just that different things happen along the way that change you, shape you. Sometimes new responsibilities are thrust upon you (like parent-hood - not for me personally, just yet!). A number of friends having that experience at the moment. And with that new responsibility, you just adapt as a response to that change.
I know that if I reach the age of 80, I'll still feel the same, young, juvenile me.
That's something that took me a few years to learn; there's not going to be some magical moment where I feel that I'm now an adult... Most people feel the same way. Just a kid in an ageing body.
The now me would like to know that the 80 year old me didn't hold back, took a risk, didn't limit himself to small thoughts, experiences and visions of myself and what I can be (or rather, let through and out).