I’m sure that at some time or another you heard people say: grow up, act your age or stop being childish!
What does that mean?
I guess, like many things in life, the answer to that question is: It depends!
Depending on life circumstances, individuals may have been conditioned and/or have chosen to lead a life of limited resources. By that I mean that they may have had external factors dictating behavioral patterns on them but, on the other hand, they could also have chosen to lead a life where human interactions were minimal or avoided for some reason or another.
Whatever the reasons are, onlookers who have led a gregarious and socially active life will look upon the limited resources group as dull, uninteresting or culturally inept. They may even label them as infantile or childish.
Conversely, the limited resources group may hold a similar view of the socially active group and apply similar labels to them like “not acting their age”, etc.
The common denominator, nevertheless, is that the two groups (and other various groups not addressed here) continue to grow older.
So growing old is inevitable. Determination of whether growing up or acting one’s age, however, will always be in the eye of the beholder!
Hani Badawi
December 1, 2017
What does that mean?
I guess, like many things in life, the answer to that question is: It depends!
Depending on life circumstances, individuals may have been conditioned and/or have chosen to lead a life of limited resources. By that I mean that they may have had external factors dictating behavioral patterns on them but, on the other hand, they could also have chosen to lead a life where human interactions were minimal or avoided for some reason or another.
Whatever the reasons are, onlookers who have led a gregarious and socially active life will look upon the limited resources group as dull, uninteresting or culturally inept. They may even label them as infantile or childish.
Conversely, the limited resources group may hold a similar view of the socially active group and apply similar labels to them like “not acting their age”, etc.
The common denominator, nevertheless, is that the two groups (and other various groups not addressed here) continue to grow older.
So growing old is inevitable. Determination of whether growing up or acting one’s age, however, will always be in the eye of the beholder!
Hani Badawi
December 1, 2017
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