Walking from childhood to adulthood is a slow-going process taking place not overnight or over a year, but over the many years that shape kids as different points in each person’s own experience. Rachel Bowes is approaching her 18th birthday and with that comes many thoughts on leaving behind who she was as a child and stepping into who she is as a young adult woman.
The inner child is never gone, just faded into a past life. Rachel Bowes poses for portraits channeling her inner child. There is a certain sad nostalgia that one has for their childhood, but if you ask most people, they are looking to the future with more hope than not. That can be said of Rachel Bowes who said, “I wouldn’t go back to middle school for anything. You couldn’t pay me to go back there. I want to go into the future actually and skip this entire college part of my life because it’s just too much.”
The plans we make for the future often must be erased. That is something Rachel Bowes is learning ever so quickly as she applies to colleges and places her hopes on where she will get in. She said, “Every time I think I know what I what and what is going to happen I change my mind or have to change my mind because life doesn’t work out the way you want it to, ever.”