I don't think I've ever felt like I wasn't a grown up. I'm really not quite sure why so many people around here see being grown up as negatively as they do.
I am who I am, and my experience shapes the nature of the way I see things, which in turn influences my actions... but my conscious, reasoning mind is the same mind I had when I was a kid wondering how long I should wait before I stopped pretending that I believed in Santa so as not to hurt my parents' feelings. I can't be anybody or anything else as long as I think and see the world using this mind. I don't have any other choice but to be me and experience the world as I am. All that changes is the circumstance. So, I suppose, I consider being "grown up" the state of being conscious and rational - the state of being. To me, all this talk of staying young at heart or growing up makes no sense but as a funny way to say that somebody is or isn't in need of a new perspective.
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)
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