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Why growing up is a matter of change and personal opinion.

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:55:13 GMT

We all need some time to be ourselves.

As a youth, being antagonized or exemplified due to your age is sometimes hypocritical behaviour, whereby those who are belittling the young people are also telling them to grow up and act more maturely. In this instance, “growing up” is about being mature, in comparison to your age. “Growing up”, as in developing personality and gaining knowledge through experience, is something that occurs through change and situation; changes brought upon by a person’s own will, changes forced upon them and changes to lifestyle out of necessity. Differing viewpoints and opinions on the matter result in multiple interpretations, and these determine how a person perceives the ideas of growing up and maturity.

With age, the broader idea is that a person will act in a more typical adult-like way. Physically, a person cannot be stopped from “growing up” this way, where, the majority of the time, an older person is generally respected more due to an assumption of knowledge or other traits that are believed to come with age. In an emotional, or psychological sense, a person can act any age that they choose to be, within reason. To “grow up”, as to mature, involves the mindset of a person, and it is their decision whether they will change themselves to be just as their age describes them or otherwise.

Change generally involves one of three factors influencing it. An individual themselves can change with their own decision, and by their own decision. As a person can judge for themselves what they want, it becomes a decision to change as to how they will act behaviourally. Independent change is much better for a person in that they gain experience through making their own decisions, over changes forced by an outside third-party. These changes can be beneficial in the same way that individual change works for “growing up”, but they limit the knowledge and experience that a maturing person would gain if they had first analyzed, then changed themselves. One other factor of change that influences “growing up” is the necessity of change within lifestyle. In order to grow, age and mature, a person must consider the environment and lifestyle which they currently live in, and determine, by their own decision or another’s, what changes must be made to both “grow up” and mature, or to gain similar experience while still remaining themselves youthful.

These ideas are followed alongside by non-influencing outside forces; the opinions of oneself and the opinions of others. The opinion of a person from external sources allows someone to gauge their age and maturity in terms of the greater community, but does not change an individual’s opinion of themselves and how they see their own maturity. This is because it is impossible for a person to judge their own character, and proceed to change it, without the knowledge of another to point out faults. And, because that external knowledge is merely a personal opinion, the idea of “growing up” can be judged as a different thing between two people.

The world needs intelligent, mature people in order to maintain structure and quality of life. In a broader, more general sense, though, “growing up” means to become more serious about things, over the child-like approach of having fun with life. Therefore, to “grow up” is both a positive and negative thing, where a balance between both sides is best in order to remain happy and productive. But, this is still underlined by the fact that to “grow up”, or to do so without appearing like they have, a person will be influenced by their current lifestyle and the ideas of others, and that is why “growing up” is a matter of change and personal opinion.

An aging matter, or rather, something to ponder upon.

Enjoy,

- E. K.

I haven't been lazy, or busy; I just haven't been motivated

Sat, 26 May 2007 13:10:25 GMT

Rewards are the product of a goal successfully completed.

Goals. We set them sometimes, to help with motivation. You know; everyone's always doing something nowadays, so we need to keep motivated; otherwise, what will be accomplished ? Without motivation, tasks become droning and mindless accomplishments, devoid of effort and personal value.

For those of my age, school is often a priority; it is our goal to achieve well enough, to prove that we have the knowledge and skills to support ourselves in the outside world. Of course, we must take into account the fact that no lesson taught at a school can truly prepare any one person for what will happen after school life; rather, it is there, that what we achieve during our stay should, at least, prepare us to expect anything and everything. But, even then, we're setting goals in order to reach that stage of " completion ", at which point a person moves on to become a part of a larger, crueller world.

And yet, I understand and comprehend the importance of everything I'm supposed to do during the course of my teen years, but there's just one problem, per sè; I don't see the point to even half of it anymore. There is a fear that I'm becoming narrow-minded, that the way I'm seeing things is rather a shallow outlook, but I do know that one cause for my problem is a lack of guidance.

No goals. No motivation. No results.

And now we see the hypocrisy upon everything, and the simply flawed judgements. Why aren't I setting goals ? What's the real motivation ? But then what's the point to that ? Or why do I question myself, time and time again ?

It's akin to a dog chasing its tail. It just goes around. And around. And around. But slowly, it edges closer to that nice, big flat brick wall. It doesn't see it coming, because that tail needs to be chased, for lack of guidance and a better mind to do more productive things. Then BAM. It hits it. There goes the dog's day. Wasted on pointless exercises. And it has a big headache to boot.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is, don't succumb to a lazy and goal-less situation, much like myself. Find something meaningful to do, even if it's not helpful in the immediate present; you never know when something produced during " down time " could come in handy.

And don't eat while you're bored. You'll become a stastistic.

Enjoy,

-E.K.

Just a Question

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:43:32 GMT

I've got just a question.

If I wrote your eulogy for you, would you be disappointed ?

I mean, even if it was really, really lame, could you still be happy that I was honouring your life ?

It's making me think.

Enjoy,

- E.K.