Growing up

I did it again, I was late with a blog, sorry.
Anyways here's something about growing up:

We all grow up, eventually. We all start out as infants and we simply can’t stay that way. We might not all grow old, but we do get older.

Children always say: “when I grow up…” children have lots of dreams about growing up. Another thing you often hear is grown-ups saying: “when I was little…” It seems that a lot of things happened when people were “little”, and I’m guessing it isn’t all true. But when is that? When are you little? Little, that must be before you grew up, yes, we can probably agree that children are smaller than us. We all start out as infants, then we turn into children, teenagers, grown-ups, old and at some point we’ll probably die too.

Oh there’s an interesting word “grown-ups” that must be the people who are done “growing up”. But when are you done growing up? Maybe there’s a “magic number”, a line you cross, which is, I guess what growing up is all about; crossing lines.

I often hear people saying that teenagers are hard to raise and understand, and they’re supposed to be so because they’re finding lines to cross, rules to break and they create an identity.

That’s another interesting word for you “identity” that is another thing growing up is good for, finding our identity. We find our identity in different ways; some by getting new friends, some by being angry at the world, and others by “looking into ourselves”. But at some point, we’ll find an identity, we’ll eventually figure out who we are, and what being who we are means.

We will encounter both bad and good as we grow up, some will get bullied, some will start abusing drugs or something completely different, but we will meet the bad sides of life too, and the bad things that happen to us as we grow up might change our personality and identity. Then there’s the good aspects of life too, they will change us too. But I do think that the bad things, in a way, are more important, maybe because we remember them differently, some might realize later in their life that the things that seemed bad to them as you’re growing up might seem stupid or silly later.

One thing is for sure though, we all grow up.