I’m Too Old!

I will joke with my Mom and even Sean that Sean and I grew up together. And it’s pretty much true. I was so young when I had them that we really have! I used to joke with him that when he graduates, the next day, I am booking myself on a singles cruise! Well, his graduation is coming up in a little over two months and I will NOT be traveling on a cruise.

I remember when he was young and into High School Musical; I watched it with him. My Mom and Sean still joke about the look on my face when Troy and Gabriella broke up in the second movie!

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I think this was when I realized my guilty pleasure was watching, “Teenybopper” movies even though I was an adult. It was okay though because Sean was still a kid. I didn’t mind watching all of the shows on TV that he watched when we lived in our second apartment. I didn’t mind watching Zoey 101:

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Sonny with a Chance:

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And Shake It Up at all:

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I remember reading the John Green book, The Fault in Our Stars and taking the sixth grade Sean (I think he was in sixth grade) with me to watch the movie adaptation. I even went with a box of Kleenex because I cried so much reading the book. He also had read my copy of the book and I enjoyed sharing reading experiences with him.

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I was still teaching middle school back then so I continued reading young adult novels so I could suggest good books to my kids. Sean didn’t read the next books But I recommended them to a number of my students

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But back then, Sean also watched movies with me that fed my ”Teenybopper” movie addiction:

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Starstruck was my jam and I liked Geek Charming as well!

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Now, Sean is too old to share books with me or even watch TV with me. I do, however, have conversations with my niece who is 14. She also is an avid reader which I tell her is a, “Rios Girl” trait and I can say that with the upmost confidence because the previous generation only had one girl in my family (That was me) and I was an avid reader!

So, even after I stopped working, I watched this movie but I did not read the book but I really like John Green:

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But after I watched the movie, I found that I didn’t love it as much as I used to love movies and books like this. So, yesterday, as is the life of a homebound person, I put Netflix on and I was going to search for a movie to watch. This was the preview that shows up almost full screen so I clicked on it and watched it:

After I finished watching it all by myself, I decided that maybe I’m too old to enjoy it like I used to. Maybe it’s because Sean is too old to enjoy it with me, maybe it’s because I no longer teach middle school students to discuss books and movies with. It kind of is a sad realization for me to realize that I am too old. I watched the movie yesterday, a week before My 38th birthday. With an 18-year-old kid, I suppose I am too old now!