Here we go again: The Line Between Prolonged Adolescence and Adulthood
An old friend was here on vacation for a couple weeks. At one point in both our lives we were really good friends but I don't think we've hung out in at least a few years now. It was nice hanging out with my old friend. It was kind of sad too though. As we talked he revealed that the way he lives his life is kind of an attempt to recapture when we were undergraduate university students, devoid of all responsibility except maybe sometimes making it to class and trying to get decent grades despite binge drinking 4 nights a week. He told about his fear of growing up and becoming an adult with adult responsibilities which I pointed out that, unfortunately he already has. My judgmental perspective was that he was just living in denial of it. It's not a fine line between this new prolonged adolescence the masses of middle class kids who went to university because their parent's wanted them to, have jobs that maybe they like or maybe they stay in their safe office job becaus