Oh, Grow Up!
It’s not so bad.
Growing up is hard. Of course, this is true. But now I’m much older and can say with certainty, growing up means more than years of struggle. Among my fellow adults I see too few prophets, artists and leaders, but plenty of adolescents lacking any originality, seeking only to conform. I admit it’s taken me much too long to grow up, and it may not have happened without heartbreak and failure and some necessary humility forcing me to acknowledge my own mortality. Growing up means growing down, becoming rooted. Growing up means learning to become one with life and death. Growing up means becoming awed by the beauty of all life in the radical quest to transcend survival - going beyond the known until we are falling, falling into the arms of the creative force called God.
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