dress rehearsal for life.

from before sunrise:

Jesse: That's so wild. I mean, I always think that I'm still this thirteen year old boy, you know who just doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it. Kind of like I'm in a dress rehearsal for a Junior High play.

so, when does life really begin? is it when you get that job promotion, or you meet that special person, or you get married, have a kid, what? am i going to just wake up one day and be a grown up? cuz right now, i still feel like a newbie [noob!] at life. there's still so much to do.

but, i think i like it that way.