When did I grow up? I just got the news...
SO lately I've felt the world pointing out that I am an adult. Taxes, health insurance with vision and dental options, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401k report, my Birthday around the corner, a pension, life insurance. All that on top of what was already there saying it: a kid, a job, a college education and a partner.
It kinda snuck up on me. OK, it Really snuck up on me. I know all those things are things kids don't have. I just didn't know I wasn't a kid. I mean ... I knew I wasn't 7 anymore, but being an adult is something more than not being 7 anymore, isn't it? Or is it? Legally, you're mostly an adult at 18, all but completely at 21, and totally at 24. But I always thought that was because they had to put numbers on it.
Some might say that girls turn into women when puberty takes its course and does its work. This seems all but completely outdated. Besides, trusting puberty-infested minds and body with anything of any real importance without close guidance seems a very bad idea to me. Children might've been raised that way in the Middle Ages. They certainly aren't today.
So I guess what I'm getting at is:
What makes an adult an adult? Is it a number, like age or income? Is it a state of mind? A list of responsibilities and/or privileges? Is it having completed some rite of passage? Or is it something else altogether?
Shall we take a poll?
It kinda snuck up on me. OK, it Really snuck up on me. I know all those things are things kids don't have. I just didn't know I wasn't a kid. I mean ... I knew I wasn't 7 anymore, but being an adult is something more than not being 7 anymore, isn't it? Or is it? Legally, you're mostly an adult at 18, all but completely at 21, and totally at 24. But I always thought that was because they had to put numbers on it.
Some might say that girls turn into women when puberty takes its course and does its work. This seems all but completely outdated. Besides, trusting puberty-infested minds and body with anything of any real importance without close guidance seems a very bad idea to me. Children might've been raised that way in the Middle Ages. They certainly aren't today.
So I guess what I'm getting at is:
What makes an adult an adult? Is it a number, like age or income? Is it a state of mind? A list of responsibilities and/or privileges? Is it having completed some rite of passage? Or is it something else altogether?
Shall we take a poll?