...but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. - Corinthians 13:11

"When I became a man I put aside childish things." It sounds simple enough. This saying got me to thinking... what exactly qualifies as 'childish things'? Dependance perhaps? Toys, games... the question is when do these things really need to go? Where is that magical line that we cross where we're suddenly someone else. An adult. Legally i've been an adult now for almost three years, but the conflict of what is and is not appropriate for an adult is raging as hard as ever.

Like many guys my age, I play video games. Is that childish? I know a lot of older adults that do that. I still live at home. I'll be moving out in time for university this fall, likely for good. I'll have to take over all the areas of my life that i'm used to having provided for me. And yet that question remains, how 'childish' should I be at my age? I'm certainly not supposed to be as a child, years of experience and teaching have progressed me past that point. Then again, i'm also not that adult with a family of his own and a secure future. My future is about as predictable as this summer's weather. (Just watch those experts be wrong again!)

So, as is my bloggish right, i'm excersizing the right to post this without any underlying complaint or point. I throw my thoughts out onto the open net...

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