Feeling like a kid has nothing to do with being a kid, and I mean that in the truest sense, age/law notwithstanding. Saying you feel like a kid is meaningless because no one really knows how anybody but themselves feel. We can't know what it's like to be anyone else, kid or not, therefore it follows that we can't know if we "feel" like a kid. What we are able to know is whether or not other people find our behaviours mature. So you might be a kid in somebody's eyes, but feel yourself to be an adult. And although you might feel like a kid because you still like having fun and goofing off, you might have the mindset of the average fully grown adult and not know it, but just happen to be open about interests that some might label childish. So let other people tell you whether or not you're mature. Personally, I think you say you feel like a kid not because you are one, but because you WANT to be one. It's a crisis most young adults go through.
Do you think they should raise the age of adulthood to 21 ?
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Feeling like a kid has nothing to do with being a kid, and I mean that in the truest sense, age/law notwithstanding. Saying you feel like a kid is meaningless because no one really knows how anybody but themselves feel. We can't know what it's like to be anyone else, kid or not, therefore it follows that we can't know if we "feel" like a kid. What we are able to know is whether or not other people find our behaviours mature. So you might be a kid in somebody's eyes, but feel yourself to be an adult. And although you might feel like a kid because you still like having fun and goofing off, you might have the mindset of the average fully grown adult and not know it, but just happen to be open about interests that some might label childish. So let other people tell you whether or not you're mature. Personally, I think you say you feel like a kid not because you are one, but because you WANT to be one. It's a crisis most young adults go through.