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Why are we so obsessed with growing up that we forget to live?
I’m running off with Peter Pan, wanna come?
When we are kids, we want to be “grow-ups.” When I was a teenager, I screamed, “when I’m a grown-up, I will do whatever I want.”
Yet, I did not do whatever I wanted for many years. Instead, I went from one family institution to a new work institution, which is the normal progression of adulthood.
Once we grow up, we forget about the most important things to us as kids, and we start acting like adults. I was thinking about this the other day.
I wondered when do we start caring so much about what other people think? When do we stop being kids and start being adults?
Is it as soon as we let someone’s opinion about us change us. Is that where the change happens? At what age do you remember thinking, oh wow, life is not what I thought it was?
I grew up pretty fast and had a lot of responsibilities at a young age, yet from reading here, I know that I am not alone.
So many of us adults never really had the chance to be kids, have fun, run around in the rain, dance in the rain okay, so maybe you did this, but did you do it without a care in the world?
