What Makes a Grownup (37)

What makes a grownup. Yesterday at our family barbecue, a 🐝 bee got caught in my hair. I calmly asked my cousin to help me get it out. She remarked at the lack of freak out, and I replied laughing, “I guess I finally grew up!” I was half-joking but got me thinking.

My little girl is really into the Peter Pan story right now. It’s probably mostly because of Tinkerbell for her, but it’s an interesting idea. Peter Pan is the boy that never grows up and gets to have a life of adventures in Neverland. The rest of us are not so lucky. What happens to transition you from youth to adult? Getting married, having kids and a mortgage are the traditional moments and of course they do accelerate it.

I feel like it’s a series of smaller moments though, that may have gone unnoticed by anyone else. Making a difficult decision or helping someone selflessly or letting go of hurt or resentment towards someone. I have not always had an easy time with that last one. But I hope that I am learning and can be better as I move into the next decade of adventure.