What makes a human // Part I

Da jeg var en lille pige så min verden sådan her ud: Pigerne legede med dukker og drengene spillede fodbold og hev pigerne i håret. Pigerne blev “pigefornærmede” og drengene ville ikke have pigelus! Hvis man trådte uden for disse trygge optegnede rammer, var man vidst lidt sær. Det kan jeg ihvertfald huske at jeg selv tænkte.

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When I was a little girl, my world looked like this: The girls played with their dolls and the boys played football and pulled the girls’ hair. The girls felt childishly insulted and the boys didn’t want to get cooties! If you didn’t follow these safely drawn rules, I guess you were a little weird. At least that’s what I remember thinking back then.

Som teenageårene nærmede sig, blev det spændende for pigerne at bruge makeup og gøre sig til for drengene, og det var så drengenes job at gøre alt for at vennerne ikke vidste at man synes når en pige var sød! Den tendens fortsætter vist op igennem hele teenagetiden. Jeg fik mit første kys, min første kæreste og alt hvad der ellers hører den tid til.

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As the teenage years approached, it became exciting for the girls to play dress up and do their makeup for the boys, and it was the boys’ jobs to make sure that their friends didn’t know about that crush they had on the cute girl at school! I think this trend continued all the way through the teenage years. I got my first kiss, my first boyfriend and many more things that you do when you are young.

Når man kom over teenageårene var det pludselig nogle andre ting der spillede ind. Drengene blev til mænd og pigerne blev til kvinder. “WHAT” tænkte jeg, da jeg pludselig begyndte at blive omtalt som en ung kvinde. “Bare fordi jeg er blevet 20 år betyder det da ikke at jeg ikke kan opføre mig som et barn”, tænkte jeg dengang. Eller gør det?

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When you find yourself past the teenage years, it was suddenly totally different things that were important. Boys became men and girls became women. “WHAT” was my first thought, when people started calling me a young woman. “Just because I am 20 years old now, does not mean that I have to stop acting like a child” I thought back then. Or did it?

To be continued ..

– Love <3