seventeen forever.

We're one mistake from being together
but let's not ask why it's not right.
You won't be seventeen forever
and we can get away with this tonight.
-Metro Station

a simple song about rebelling, right?
wrong.

the way i look at it is the crazy and, let's face it, annoying Trace Cyrus and the wonderful Mason Musso telling us an important thing.

you're in a stage of being a kid. where you can get away with most things.
you can balme it on immaturity or ignorance [not the greatest excuses, but people go for it].
but the second you hit 18, things change.
life changes.

you way wake up on your eighteenth birthday and say "i don't feel any different than i did yesterday" and i do that too.

but even though you might feel the same from the last night you're seventeen to the first morning you're eighteen, something HAS changed.

you can drink alcohol in most places.
you can be tried as an adult and go to real jail verses going to juvie.
you can only be intimately involved with a person over eighteen.
you can live alone.
you can get married without parental consent.
you can get piercings and tatoos without parental consent.
you can smoke.

now does that sound like nothing has changed?

i think Metro Station hit something very important with this song, whether they meant to or not.

you're not going to be a kid forever.

so appreciate it you while your innocence is still in tact and you are still a carefree kid.

because once you hit eighteen, adios!

you're going to college.
moving out.
getting a job.
paying bills.
living alone.
all that fun stuff.

so while we may not be seventeen forever; living in teen world and being classified as a kid.
take advantage of the time.

me? i'm going to be eighteen in four years.

long time? kinda.

in a hurry? hell no.