I think Drew Barrymore has turned out to be the best of her huge acting family. She is superbly versatle and willing to step into any role and play it with realism. She’s smart and over the last few years has won my admiration

I’m pretty happy with who I am. I don’t think there really s a big secret beyond knowing who you are and being that whoever that is no matter where you are or who you’re with and to know how to make the adjustments that that calls for in order to socialize or participate in the world.

I think life just is. I know a lot of people need to have more than that, religion or something they think is bigger than mankind to look to for answers to things that happen to them. I tend to think things are random and there are no answers to why, why me.

I really don’t get the well look at the tress and the animals etc to prove there is a god. I tend towards god being the universe and everything in it, not some entity on a throne in a cloudy palace that you get to on a road paved with gold or even sin that pass over to some other entity that is a part of that palace thing. I think the gods of the various religions are man made because the people who made them felt too alone or powerless and needed to have a metaphorical daddie or mommie. (matriarchal tribes)

I think it’s being grown up to know when you’re wrong and acknowledging that when necessary in order not to slough off your own resposibility onto someone else because it’s too big for you to carry. In other words I think it’s grown up to be able to look in the mirror and know that you took on everything that was yours and didn’t expect someone else to carry your load. That’s not to say that I think you shouldn’t be able to share with others what it’s like to have the load/s that you have because empathy is one of the tools that we can interchange.

Please don’t to be offended but one of the tools I use to bring things into perspective is that I imagine that we’re all dandruff and the earth is a giant head and we can’t see the rest of the body if there even is more. But this is my take from the view I have using the leelte grey cells that I have left. Life itself is huge and each one of us is but a small organism of that whole.

But that doesn’t mean that I think people should just give up and not try to be whatever, just that it isn’t particularly healthy to think there is some grand design or some other set of circumstnaces that should make one feel grown up.

Now for my real down to earth take on being grown up. You learn what works and what doesn’t and then live according to those things that come up every day with the eye for making what you know and have work and when if you have some extra energy or I don’t know what you can use it to do things that feed your heart and your head but it’s now only you who makes those decisions. I think that’s all there is to being and adult, a grown up is to make the decisions and live with them.