This past Halloween, a pair of very sexy looking black cats appeared on my doorstep chiming “trick or treat!” The two feline friends were sporting knee-high boots and tight black spandex — “normal” sexy cat costumes except these girls were no older than 13. Call me old-fashioned, but the sight of these two girls, dressed more maturely than they no doubt were, made my heart ache. Although my daughter is still a toddler, I’m already getting parental anxiety about her growing up too fast.
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When I was a little girl, I thought that grown ups were these mature people that always had the answers and wore sensible clothes. I thought that growing up was just another milestone similar to high school graduation. Now that I am of the age of someone who could be considered ‘grown up’ I am still wondering when my time will come to actually feel this way. I’ve come to realize that there are a number of reasons why we never really feel grown up, but the main reason is because of our families. Love’em or hate’em, families have the strange ability to turn back time and make you feel like a kid again. That time you wet the bed when you had a sleep-over? Your cousin will never let you forget it. That embarrassing baby picture of you with poopy pants? It’s on display and framed for everyone’s viewing pleasure. When people think of Canada, they often think of a cultural mosaic, a place where people from all cultures and ethnicities co-exist peacefully. The racial make-up of Canadians has changed dramatically in the past decade as more visible minorities are moving to the country. However, growing up as a child of the 80’s in Alberta, I did not exactly feel like part of a mosaic. In fact, I often felt like the odd little Asian kid amongst a sea of Caucasian faces. |
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