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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
AFC - your attitude reminds me of a quote from C.S. Lewis:
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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I suspect Lewis would have had a slightly different attitude towards men that seem to desperately not want to grow up at all, not feel the least discomfort or put their family first, to avoid the social mores of adulthood at all, its one thing to still like a few things from your youth, I still play soccer and like to go see a band, its intirely another to refuse to take on any of the trappings of adulthood at all, to live your whole life like a teenager.