Prequel Blog to my Birthday blog:
I don't think I'll ever be as adult-like as my peers, because to me, Adolescence is a stage of constant learning. Adulthood starts when there is no more knowledge to be gained. Everyday I learn new things, whether it be about myself or life in general. For instance, I just recently learned how to correctly apply eye shadow and how to get stains out of the carpet. I still can't quite grapple how to hold chopsticks or figure out what the square root of a power is; and I'm still learning about heartbreak and how to fully appreciate the important people in my life.
My only excuse for any of these things is simply that I'm young. But, I don't think that my lack of life experience and knowledge constitutes me as immature. I think immaturity comes when you fail to recognize you have plenty of growing to do. And I do not pretend that I am the most intelligent or the most put together person out there. Most of the time I'm a mess. I have so much learning to do. And I don't think that makes me too young or too immature. Frankly, I don't believe in being too young. I have over half of my life left to be too old. So, why waste time wanting to be older? One day I'll look back and wish for the time when I was too young.
So for the time being, I'm content with being too young, too green and too uneducated. With age comes knowledge and I'll wait patiently until life delivers it to me.
Maturity comes with experiece. Experience helps us grow as people. It's with experience that we grow, not with age. It's important as human beings to analyze and self reflect in order to continue to grow and continue to prosper. Enjoying your youth, is really important, but remember to self reflect in any kind of situation in the way it impacts your life. Because there will always be something new to learn from and grow from as we continue to turn a different number each year. It's an never ending process.
ReplyDeleteThat of course is my two cents.
Keep enjoying your life, and keep on learning and self reflecting.
Oh, you poor thing... The true mark of adulthood is when you stop thinking you know it all (like teenagers do), and realize you that do have things to learn. When you have that awareness, that knowledge of you own human fallibility and frailty... That's when you know you've grown up.
ReplyDeleteYou're already an adult, you just haven't realized it yet. And your peers? They're just as lost and confused as you are.