Thursday, February 08, 2007
Growing up
Have you ever wondered what is the line that you need to cross before you cease being a child/teenage/young adult and become a fully fledged Adult?
21 is universally recognized as the age whereby people cease being children and are officially adults. Yet, how many 21 year olds can really be considered adults?
I'm 24 this year, yet i feel like I still have a long way to go.
So, what gives?
Obviously, age is not a good indicator of adulthood. You can be 30 (im NOT referencing anyone here) but still have the mentality of a child.
Maybe the emotional maturity of an individual is a better gauge for adulthood.
I find it especially laughable when I meet "adults" who expect to be taken seriously when they are just really 16 year olds stuck in an older body.
In fact, it annoys me. Annoys me because I don't know how to deal with such people.
Because they are so emotionally inmature, I feel like treating them like they are children but this would be so insulting (at least I would be insulted if I were treated like a child who knows nothing.). But yet, when I interact with such individuals as if they were adults, I end up vomitting blood all over the place.
It's like "OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! What the hell are you thinking?!!!!!???!! Grow up grow up grow up!!!" in my head million times over.
21 is universally recognized as the age whereby people cease being children and are officially adults. Yet, how many 21 year olds can really be considered adults?
I'm 24 this year, yet i feel like I still have a long way to go.
So, what gives?
Obviously, age is not a good indicator of adulthood. You can be 30 (im NOT referencing anyone here) but still have the mentality of a child.
Maybe the emotional maturity of an individual is a better gauge for adulthood.
I find it especially laughable when I meet "adults" who expect to be taken seriously when they are just really 16 year olds stuck in an older body.
In fact, it annoys me. Annoys me because I don't know how to deal with such people.
Because they are so emotionally inmature, I feel like treating them like they are children but this would be so insulting (at least I would be insulted if I were treated like a child who knows nothing.). But yet, when I interact with such individuals as if they were adults, I end up vomitting blood all over the place.
It's like "OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! What the hell are you thinking?!!!!!???!! Grow up grow up grow up!!!" in my head million times over.
Sigh. Perhaps the best policy is simply to ignore and avoid such folk at all costs to preserve sanity.
Not that I know many to start with lah.