BLOG POST #8- The Difference Between Us and Them (Youth and Adulthood)
What is the difference between youth and adulthood? What is the difference between them and us? There are clear differences that exist between children, teens, and adults. Each stage in our lives is drastically different than the previous one. There can be no link between the stages, but rather one must move from one to the next and not turn back.
To turn back to an earlier stage could be viewed as immature. We are expected to do so much more as adults. We are expected to be mature and act in a certain way; to conduct ourselves in a certain manner. Teens and children have their own invisible set of rules that they are supposed to follow as well. Drinking and drug experimentation for example, is an understood rule of something a teenager would be meddling in, rather than a child or an adult. Those rules don’t apply to adults who are supposed to be different.
These invisible rules give everyone at a different stage of their life a certain purpose. It is this purpose that created us. It is this purpose that connects us. It is this purpose that pulls us, that guides us, and drives us. This purpose is what defines us. It is purpose that binds us. And my issue with this purpose is that I disagree with it. This understood purpose tells us what we are supposed to do, taking away individuality in exchange for uniformity within society. I think we should all break the barriers of our purpose and bridge the gaps between them and us. I’ll interact more with teens and children, allowing them to learn more about what it means to be an adult, while allowing myself to enjoy the activities of their youth. While some may call my interaction immature, it in fact is only a rupture from our understood purpose.
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