Growing Up

There it goes.  I have had this driver's license for the past five years of my life.  I have to say, it has done me well.  It may seem insignificant for me to renew my license, but it means that I am turning 21.  A lot of people know that I'm really not that big on birthdays.  I see it as just another day in my life; another day older just like every other that passes.  But for whatever reason, my 21st birthday just seems like a huge step for me.  Maybe it's combined with the fact that after I finish my OM final tomorrow I will be a college senior (I feel like I was just a high school senior!!) or that so many of my friends from school are graduating and moving, while so many others are getting married, in addition to all of the ones that already are.  If you think about it, our society considers 21 to be the age in many ways in which you actually become an adult, which is incredibly frightening and exciting at the same time.  So, while I don't see too much significance in the actual birthday itself, I do feel oddly sentimental about no longer having a vertical driver's license.