Getting Older Sucks

[evilhippo]

I'm just wondering if I'm the only one that finds the differences between the grade levels in Google's doodle contest kind of fascinating. You can tell that certain forms have been hammered into the high school kids' heads, from the way they word their responses (there are two, I think, that read naturally) to the hard-cast form of their art (none of them replace any of the letters). Maybe I'm just partial to kids, but I worry that this is actually a reflection of what happens to us in high school and after. We kind of settle in, after the years of having "this is how it's done and this is how you will do it" lessons drilled into our heads, and stop coloring outside the lines. It makes me sad. (I have trouble even seeing the outside of the lines these days, let alone reaching past them.)

I also wonder how many of the middle school and below entries are full of Parental Interference, though. Some of those are very pretty for young kids.

Comments

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

There are no lines! The only line... IS MY FIST! ...But then, my fist is kinda puny and prone to bleeding, even if it is highly resistant to basic solutions.

IF IT IS MADE OUT OF LYE, MY FIST WILL CONQUER IT. LYE IS THE LINE, MAN. Just say "No" to soap.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I worry about you sometimes.

[windresistant.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm glad my parents sucked and I only ever had one art teacher, who let us do whatever we wanted. >_>;;;;;;