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Note: I often make references to the Myers-Briggs Personality Types, or MBTI, so for best understanding of this little look into the inner workings of my mind it is best if you know a bit about them. If you don't feel like doing the research the feel free not to read past this point.

It's something of an unspoken fact when you're young that no kid wants to be older. Teenagers are bratty and high-and-mighty, and God forbid you ever become an adult. They're so boring and practical and why would anyone ever want to be one?
Of course, I was once a young child and felt this way. However, as I got a little older - perhaps somewhere from eight to ten - I began to think about it. I realized that no one could stop growing up. Eventually I would become a teenager and finally an adult, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I was even more petrified of growing up than before, because I had come to the conclusion that I would become my parents and there was no preventing it.
Now, my mother is a very practical person, efficient and rather judgemental of those who aren't - an ISTJ to those of you to whom that means anything - and to me, a child, and an INTP child at that, becoming my mother would be my worst nightmare.
However, having more than half a decade and a newfound obsession with personality psychology under my belt since then, I have come to realize thst I am very different from my mother as well as the rest of my family, and most of the people around me as well. I'm not going to be like any of them, nor would I be if I tried (which I don't want to do). 
There's nothing inherently wrong with being like your parents, or your siblings, or that second grade teacher you hated because she was so strict, however you shouldn't try to be something you're not. If you aren't much for crowds and social events, don't try to be that way just because it's valued by society. Don't try to be athletic or valedictorian or amicable just because that's what others appreciate. Be yourself, and be the best you that you can be, because as cheesy as it sounds, you can't be someone else, so why wear yourself thin trying?