Zara Rutherford is 19 years old. For better or worse, an adult.
For whatever yardstick you use to measure, seems we can’t imagine someone else doing something we ourselves can’t imagine at some age. For every person dismayed at a 19 year old flying around the world, I bet I could find 1 or 2 people dismayed that a 63 year old is still flying, much less around the globe.
At 19, Zara should be regulated to the YouTubes and the ticktocks. Heaven forbid someone, an adult no less, cares to take a peek over the horizon. And I’m sure for some, this gurl should be talking home economics classes vs. STEM.
For many, freedom and Liberty of the individual must be curtailed for as much and as long as possible. I posit, that of you treat a 15 year old as a responsible, functional, individual member of society, by 19, you’ll have a functional, individual adult.
Maybe, just maybe, Zara is really an adult. Maybe she has broken some molds. I hope so. And I don’t just hope so for her sake.
If she doesn’t complete her goal, AvWeb will surely inform us and we can sit back on our Lazy-Boy throne and fire as many “I told you so’s” as our thumbs will allow us to type. All the while rejoicing that this individual got what she deserve and in the least, was reeled back from making an effort.
If she does complete her goal, we might hear about it in passing, and yet we will still consternate that someone had the audacity to cross that line and join the living, instead of wallowing the the self-loathing world of the dead.