When did you become an adult?

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by Jumpfruit, Sep 2, 2013.

  1. I don't believe that everyone becomes an adult at the same time, nor through the same experiences.

    Personally, I think I became an adult a couple of months ago. It was around that time that I finally grew real, genuine respect for my parents. I realised that I owe everything I have now to them, and I think that realisation acted as a catalyst in my transformation into adulthood.

    What about you?

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  2. The longer I'm alive the more I realize how little I really know about life...but to answer the question, I feel like I gained my adulthood as I was raising my 2 sons...perceptions and values change rapidly when you're responsible for another person's livelihood and knowledge of life...I think I'm still working on becoming an adult....
     
  3. #3 WorkaholicsGirl, Sep 2, 2013
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    I'm 24 and I still don't feel like I'm an adult.  I feel so unprepared for life...but I try to take it one day at a time...
     
    Awesome thread, by the way.
     
  4. Always been mature for my age even though I didn't always make wise decisions, I still knew some of the things I was doing were wrong. Regardless, I took the GED test blind the day I turned 16 and emancipated myself.
     
  5. #5 The Architect, Sep 2, 2013
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    I became an adult after I was diagnosed with APML (Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia) and was told I was in remission. :D
     
  6. #6 esseff, Sep 2, 2013
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    What is an adult? (not in the legal sense). Someone who is no longer a child? Who takes on proper responsibility? Who does what's expected of them? Drinks? Behaves according to social norms? Does what they want? Has nobody to tell them what to do (outside of the law that is, and even then)? It also depends on what it is I'm doing and with whom. If I'm being a dad, I feel more like an adult that if I'm walking and smoking with a freind in the woods. I am always child just in an ever older body. Still love to feel child-like. Become like little children he said. See the world through eyes of wonder, as if experiencing things for the first time. In reality, reality is always being experienced for the first time, and I am never quite the same when I do. So who is the grown-up then, and who is the one who can experience the world as it is not as it appears to be? The adult or the child?
     
  7. probably around 17..working, out on my own, being responsible...all that shitty adult stuff
     
  8. Thanks for the great responses.
     
    The term 'adulthood' is obviously subjective, but I think there are a set of prerequisites common in any 'adult' such as:
     
    The realisation that you really don't know much at all (as jmick says up there ^). 'The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know.' - Socrates
    An increase in respect for anyone who goes through hardship
    A genuine will to learn, and more time spent on introspection.
     
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    That sounds good to me.
     
  10. I've always felt the same, like the little kid who wielded sticks as swords, don't really care if I never feel grown up. I just enjoy everything as it comes. Living feels strangely surreal, at least for me anyway. 
     
  11. #11 Boats And Hoes, Sep 2, 2013
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    Peer pressure...
     
     
    how childish of me.
     
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    I'd like to add the realization that you're responsible for yourself as a prerequisite.
     
  13. good question. i was brought up to have the idea of 18 being the golden age (no choice but to go to college and move out in order to "become an adult") but i definitely feel like i still have plenty to learn. will get back at you when i find out..
     
  14. when i turned 18 and could buy butts and pron
     
  15. I became an adult when I started paying "child support," because its more than just whipping out your wallet, it's about making a sound investment in the future.  Adults accept responsibility for the choices they make and sometimes those choices have names and birth certificates.
     
  16. When my paw gave me an M16, 4 grenades, and buck knife and threw me out of a helicopter over Nam' at 11 years old. :smoking:
     
  17. Shit. Probably 16. Own job, car, etc.
     
  18. I'd say I started thinking in a similar style to the one I hold now around the time I was 16.
     
  19. Yesterday at an event my wife and I talked to this 6 year old and his mom about the bow and arrow set he had, and planned on seeking out the stand to get a few for us and our friends. I'm 24, I've been to hell and back, and I still don't think I'll ever feel like an adult. I will get the same amount of, if not more joy than my future kids when we go to get their toys. As many things that have changed and hardened me, there's still this sense of childhood innocence I have, and I honestly don't think it's ever going away. I think I'm a lucky one though.
     
  20. Still working on it.
     

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