Looking at Graduate Schools

I'm almost 21 and many of my peers have children
Children?!
I still feel like a child, this cannot be good.
High school students ask me for permission to go there, do that.
I'm an authority figure to your 17-year-old self?
And who are you calling "ma'am"?

Between moving into my own place and looking at graduate schools
I lost which way is up; every step looks bigger and time seems shorter.
But when life insurance agents and credit card companies come calling
I shake my size twelve rear to "The Future Freaks Me Out"
Relishing the fact that age is number, and numbers rarely define things that matter.
I do not add and subtract smiles from strangers, count the amount of love in my life, or tally
My inexplicable infatuation for Play Dough.
I will grow up on my own good time.