child and adult
It's kind of interesting to think about maturity vs. immaturity, adult vs. child, when it comes to kids my age. Many of my friends have passed their eighteenth birthdays recently, but I can't picture them as 'adults'. I won't celebrate my eighteenth birthday for five months.
Personally, I think I'm pretty immature. Maybe about 70% immature. I tend to be irresponsible. I don't have much work ethic. (I don't have a job this year because I didn't want to be too busy.) I tend to blow off schoolwork; instead of working hard I just jot an answer down and say "good enough". I forget to do things constantly, and lose things like stray money and even whole bags of things quite often. Is this immature, or just absentminded?
But sometimes, I see other teenagers making scenes arguing against their parents about something like a too-tight T-shirt, and let myself think, I'm more mature than that. Really, I am freakishly close to my parents and would not even think of doing anything rebellious against them.
I suppose most people do have a bit of rebellion in there somewhere, though. Mine comes out in school. If a teacher tells me to be serious, I will want to be flippant. If a teacher tells me to lighten up, I will probably want to be serious. My tiny bit of rebellion comes out when I am assigned an essay in English class and just want to write a long biting satire of foolish-sounding academic writing instead.
In one way, I have strong beliefs and formed opinions and a definite outlook and full intentions. I think about religion and books and newspaper articles... and then turn to a friend and tell a really bad joke or suddenly remember to do the Physics homework I forgot before.
Really, though, I think everyone should keep some childishness within them. Going out and running about in the rain, twirling around in fields, making daisy chains and, most of all, laughing all the way down the road over the silliest things with close friends.
Without some childishness, life would be meaningless.
I am not sure how to divide good childishness from bad immaturity, though.
Personally, I think I'm pretty immature. Maybe about 70% immature. I tend to be irresponsible. I don't have much work ethic. (I don't have a job this year because I didn't want to be too busy.) I tend to blow off schoolwork; instead of working hard I just jot an answer down and say "good enough". I forget to do things constantly, and lose things like stray money and even whole bags of things quite often. Is this immature, or just absentminded?
But sometimes, I see other teenagers making scenes arguing against their parents about something like a too-tight T-shirt, and let myself think, I'm more mature than that. Really, I am freakishly close to my parents and would not even think of doing anything rebellious against them.
I suppose most people do have a bit of rebellion in there somewhere, though. Mine comes out in school. If a teacher tells me to be serious, I will want to be flippant. If a teacher tells me to lighten up, I will probably want to be serious. My tiny bit of rebellion comes out when I am assigned an essay in English class and just want to write a long biting satire of foolish-sounding academic writing instead.
In one way, I have strong beliefs and formed opinions and a definite outlook and full intentions. I think about religion and books and newspaper articles... and then turn to a friend and tell a really bad joke or suddenly remember to do the Physics homework I forgot before.
Really, though, I think everyone should keep some childishness within them. Going out and running about in the rain, twirling around in fields, making daisy chains and, most of all, laughing all the way down the road over the silliest things with close friends.
Without some childishness, life would be meaningless.
I am not sure how to divide good childishness from bad immaturity, though.
posted by Laura at 6:21 PM
2 Comments:
WOMBAT!
"Really, though, I think everyone should keep some childishness within them. Going out and running about in the rain, twirling around in fields, making daisy chains and, most of all, laughing all the way down the road over the silliest things with close friends."
You forgot making all of your teachers think you and/or your friends are completely insane. haha ^_^
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