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    I Don't Want To Grow Up!

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    The document expresses a desire not to grow up and a dislike of many aspects of adulthood. Key points include: - The author feels growing up is an "excuse" for the difficulties of human existence and sees it as a terrifying prospect rather than something positive. - Adulthood involves taking on responsibilities and constantly worrying about problems, as well as seeing loved ones age and realizing adults are flawed. - The author believes life inherently involves suffering, such as dedicating much of one's time and energy to work that may not be meaningful or enjoyable, just to survive. - Over 40 years, the average person spends around 28% of their life purely working for others, which the author

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    The document expresses a desire not to grow up and a dislike of many aspects of adulthood. Key points include: - The author feels growing up is an "excuse" for the difficulties of human existence and sees it as a terrifying prospect rather than something positive. - Adulthood involves taking on responsibilities and constantly worrying about problems, as well as seeing loved ones age and realizing adults are flawed. - The author believes life inherently involves suffering, such as dedicating much of one's time and energy to work that may not be meaningful or enjoyable, just to survive. - Over 40 years, the average person spends around 28% of their life purely working for others, which the author

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    The document expresses a desire not to grow up and a dislike of many aspects of adulthood. Key points include: - The author feels growing up is an "excuse" for the difficulties of human existence and sees it as a terrifying prospect rather than something positive. - Adulthood involves taking on responsibilities and constantly worrying about problems, as well as seeing loved ones age and realizing adults are flawed. - The author believes life inherently involves suffering, such as dedicating much of one's time and energy to work that may not be meaningful or enjoyable, just to survive. - Over 40 years, the average person spends around 28% of their life purely working for others, which the author

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    I Don't Want To Grow Up!

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    I don’t want to grow up!

    I have always felt this way. I do not want to grow up. Plain and simple. It
    bothers me that growing up has been so normalised and rationalized.
    ‘Growing up’, has just been an excuse for the turbulent state of human
    existence. If anyone thinks that ‘growing up’ is a good thing, then they are
    lying to themselves. I know these may be the thoughts of child who is too
    afraid of the outside world, to that I will say, Yes, I am. No one can tell me
    that all of this is not terrifying. Contemplating this is not a sign of weakness,
    it’s a sign of being self-aware. I have a voice that can be different and still
    valid. I feel this world sucks, where curiosity is killed and replaced with
    efficiency. Where we are literally bounded to things. The human mind is the
    single greatest thing in this universe, It can fathom….end of sentence. It can
    understand things. I honestly don’t know why I am writing this, but I can’t
    keep this to myself. Will my feelings change? Most probably, but right now,
    I am at the base of this mountain looking up, I ponder, why does anyone
    even need to climb this mountain?

    Growing up is being responsible. If you don’t do the things that need to be


    done, they won’t be done. Constantly on your feet for problems and
    potential leeks in the boat that we call life. Living on such high alert has to
    be bad. Life, in this day and age has been a constant string of worries,
    problems and paradoxes. Unsolvable conundrums that haunt us like the
    blood on the hands of Macbeth. Seeing people who raised us grow old is
    supposed to be part of ‘growing up’ but it sucks. I have gone from
    completely believing every word told to me by my grandmother to realising
    that she’s manipulative and never truly cared about me. I have seen the
    adults in my life who I thought were the smartest people in the world, be
    absolutely terrible humans, let alone parents. I have seen with my own eyes
    all the things I was taught not to do, be done. Everyone goes through a
    moment where they realise that adults are just children with children. Who’s
    going to correct them? Us? They don’t listen to ‘children’.
    Therefore, we are stuck with ‘compromise’. Compromise is just learning to
    live with the devils around you. I used to trust everyone, now I don’t trust
    the people closest to me because I have learnt that when push comes to
    shove everyone is a monster. All of this, as mandatory as it is, sucks. I know,
    ‘it’s a part of life’, ‘everyone has to go through it’ and ‘you have it so good,
    so many people do not even have half of you’. All of these arguments are
    valid, but the cause is faulty. We just learn to accept that Life inherently
    sucks and is always going to kick you down and spit in your face. It’s our
    job to get up, dust ourselves and carry on two steps until the next bashing
    inevitably falls upon us.

    There is literally no time to breathe. Doing nothing is the natural state,


    working is an anomaly. I find it hysterical that people do not live their lives
    because they are too tired from working. Vacations are limited. I feel that
    ‘work’ should be treated with more respect. It’s not something that has to be
    done, it is something you are choosing to do. You choose to dedicate your
    mental health and your physical health to a cause, leaving aside your own
    personal afflictions and vice, now that should be met with more than, “But
    you are supposed to be doing that”. SAYS WHO! Who made this choice for
    me? Who dictated that I should normalise this?

    Early twenties are when the average individual starts earing, starts ‘having
    a career’ or ‘providing for themselves or the family’. The reality of the
    situation is that you are working for pennies on the dollar, struggling,
    dealing with problems that aren’t even yours most of the time, trying to
    show the work rather than do the work because of corporate culture. You
    work from Nine am to Five pm most of the time. That’s 37.5% of your day.
    Not to mention commute and the work spills over into the remainder of the
    day so almost half your day for most of your life goes into something which
    most of the time isn’t even yours. For people who work or do things they
    love as their jobs, I personally feel is a sure shot way to ruin something you
    truly love.
    “If you love it what you do you won’t be working a day of your life”, is a
    sentence told to everyone, but I want to add to that by saying that you have
    taken something you love and meddled with it, morphed it to fit in the ‘Real
    World’ so much so that is it even the same thing you used to love? Can you
    enjoy it the same as a hobby or a passion? Where do you draw the line? If
    you can’t draw the line, is it not always work and isn’t that exhausting?

    People retire at Sixty, so around 40 years you work (consider averages and
    rounded off numbers). Implementing the initial calculations, 50% of 40
    years is 20 years, the average life expectancy is 73 years that means 28% of
    your life is just purely living for someone else. That is being conservative. I
    hate that. I hate the thought of slogging and working for something that at
    the end of the day might be meaningless and gives you a false sense of
    achievement. This does not mean I do not want to work. I do want to earn,
    as much and as quickly as possible. But I can do it begrudgingly.

    Look, I understand this is a pointless rant. I know I, along with literally


    billions of us have to struggle with ‘life’, the point is not to suffer, the point
    of this piece was to shine a light on struggle. People often glorify adulthood
    by saying freedom and independence. True, but at a cost of a lot of
    immutable things.

    Aditya Gaitonde.

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