What I realized at 29 years old is that adults don’t exist. Everyone just figures it out on the fly and pretends to be wiser. Sometimes to elevate ourselves above other people, sometimes to give them an opportunity to steady themselves in the uncertain world.
Realizing my parents, grandparents, school teachers and so on had always been just people hit pretty hard, somewhere in my twenties.
But this also means that everyone deserves to have a moment to stop pretending and just comfort themselves. It’s not a sin to be childish.
What I realized at 29 years old is that adults don’t exist. Everyone just figures it out on the fly and pretends to be wiser. Sometimes to elevate ourselves above other people, sometimes to give them an opportunity to steady themselves in the uncertain world.
Realizing my parents, grandparents, school teachers and so on had always been just people hit pretty hard, somewhere in my twenties.
But this also means that everyone deserves to have a moment to stop pretending and just comfort themselves. It’s not a sin to be childish.