To Grow Up or Not to Grow Up. That is the Question

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"That's just part of growing up" I heard someone say to me the other day. 

As I've started dabbling with this phrase, it’s got me thinking about what does that mean? 

Being responsible for yourself and your family as well as being responsible to your society and the world at large?

Being financially and emotionally independent? Being able to survive and progress through your lifetime?

Being able to tide-over the peaks and troughs, the joys and sorrows, the heartfelt and the heartbreaks and still keep going, growing stronger and dare I say "mature".

For a moment, let’s query it from thought of what ‘growing up’ is not. To think we don't have an opposite to the invented word 'grown up' is telling. Is the opposite of growing up, being a child ? 

Not following the 'conditioned' brain on what we should be doing but doing what your 'intuitive' heart feels like? 

Looking at every day with a sense of infinite possibilities rather than making every day like the previous one (because thats how it works)? 

Doing not only the right things, but the left things and the zig-zag things too? Looking at the world and the things in it with a naive sense of wonderment and not only as resources? 

Being a hopeless romantic despite all the failed love?  Being a dreamer, despite many unrealized fantasies. Being a believer even after the many cynical disappointments to your faith?

So, do I want to be a grown up or not one? Do I even have to choose? Can I be both?

Let’s try to figure this out, shall we?

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