I Wish I Understood Whatever Growing Upmeans. Is Growing Up Growing Taller Or Larger? Is Growing Up Change

I wish I understood whatever growing up means. Is growing up growing taller or larger? Is growing up change the way one thinks? Or is growing up just growing older? I wished I’d know because i don’t think I want it. Yes, i want to travel alone around the world. Yes, I want to get my dream car. Yes, i need to be an adult to have my dream come true - opening my cute little book shop and café. But i don’t want to miss the late night car rides with my mom when she comes to pick me up from a party. I don’t want to miss my old school, my old bedroom, my old me. 

Is there a way of stop time? Or just to go back to when I was younger and live it all again?! 

with persuasion (2022) grappling for the same snarky/fun/whimsy take on austen that emma (2020) had:

emma does retain crucial period-specific elements. dressing, style, social norms, language. i was thrown at first by how different it was from previous adaptations, but its charm is in how fresh it feels despite respecting the source material.

what's more, this doesn't detract from austen's characterisation of emma woodhouse. emma is lively, and bright, and often thoughtless, and that's very much captured in the adaptation. (i have my thoughts on the characterisation of isabella and mr woodhouse but that's a discussion for another day.) sure, we got scenes that were never in the book (the nosebleed one? hysterical) but i'm not against an adaptation throwing some of its own fodder into the mix.

persuasion, though, in trying to follow emma, is in danger of losing the entire spirit of the book and of anne elliot. anne does not exist to be elizabeth bennet-ed and emma woodhouse-d into becoming more palatable to audiences. it's absolutely right that anne is courageous and competent and charming, but in her own unique way. and it is precisely this that should show people that not everyone has to act like elizabeth and emma to be admired as a heroine.

you can be less lively, kind, quiet, humble, and still be as well-beloved. because that's exactly who anne elliot is. she is, and grows to become, a strong woman, despite everyone around her thinking otherwise just because of how unassuming she appears to be.

i think we've lost an incredible chance for anne to help people understand that, and i'm disappointed.

I had to come prepared for any outcome.....big ups to mercedes for the double podium and...well ferrari...good luck with. all that..

Jane Austen was really out there 200 years ago writing lines like “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more” that to this day are still so swoon-worthy.