Now and Then

I love the movie "Now and Then." I used to watch it all the time in middle school. It was very similar to my life - biking everywhere, desperately trying to earn money, seances, etc.

For those of you who haven't seen it, it's mostly about 4 middle-school-age girls and their crazy summer, but part of the movie is the 4 girls as adults. They made a pact to come back together whenever of them needed the others, and now one of them is about to have a baby so they all come back home to support her.

I watched it the other day, and I was incredibly freaked out. For the first time ever I was much more similar to the adults than to the kids. They have careers and worries and have moved far from home, like me.

Even though I've seen the movie about 400 times, it never once occurred to me that I would one day be an adult like them. I thought I'd always be riding my bike around and chasing boys down my street.


Also it's kind of disturbing to think that I paused the movie repeatedly to see Devon Sawa's penis. He's about 14 in this movie.