“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.”
This is pretty much my philosophy on life. :D
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I have…conflicted feelings about that statement. Someone remind me to type more on this when I’m not so tired.
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Thank you very much, Ms. Duane, for causing this quote to enter my field of vision.
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Or, as another great philosopher once said, “There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes”.
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I adore C.S. Lewis…
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Words of wisdom.
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