superheroes make me feel inadequate

[deird1]

By the age of 12, Aang had defeated the Fire Nation.

By 18, Harry had stopped Voldemort.

By 22, Buffy had created an army of Slayers.

By 28, Emma had broken the Witch's curse.

By 30, Sarah Connor had killed the Terminator, given birth to the leader of the resistance, learnt several languages, blown up several buildings, broken out of an insane asylum, and killed another Terminator.



By 31, I will... have achieved world domination. But I'm not allowed to talk about that.

Comments

[beer_good_foamy]

"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
- Tom Lehrer

[frayadjacent]

Heh heh, I know what you mean. On a different but related note, I was thinking the other day about how I want to start biking to work again, but that when I do my hair doesn't look as nice and my mascara runs and I hate wearing dangly earrings with a helmet. And my next thought? "Buffy slays vampires while wearing hoop earrings and a pretty pink halter and shoes with heels*..." Thankfully I quickly remembered that she's a television character. Lol. Also, *facepalm*.

I take this to mean it's your birthday? Or it's coming up?

*Though I'll never forgive those heels she wears to her final (televisual) apocalypse. They have no traction! And she's jumping from buildings to a moving bus!

[lonespark]

Heh. Nice.

I didn't watch BSG that much, but I kind of appreciated that a lot of the characters, and especially Starbuck, kicked ass and took names but frequently looked like hell.

[velvetwhip]

Good luck with the conquerage.


Gabrielle

[everydayisthorsday.wordpress.com]

This is why I compare myself to Iron Man. He spent years as an alcoholic before getting his act together and becoming an Avenger.

[lonespark]

You are my new favorite.

(Plus child prodigies and child stars can have a rough adulthood. Which ties in with Tony Stark, too...)

Sometimes I compare myself to Madeline Albright and Nancy Pelosi. That way, I figure, I'll wait til my kids go to college, go into the family business, and make my way up the ladder til I'm kicking ass with my grey hair and impressing my grandkids.

[rahirah]

At times like this I recall the wise words of Tom Lehrer: "When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for six years."