As a child I always felt surrounded by adults, people bigger than me who knew more and worked harder and were so much more mature than I could ever imagine. The older I get the more it feels like no one ever really grows up. We all still have childish thoughts and desires and habits. “Being an adult” is just hiding who you really are and how you really feel in order to conform to social norms and feel accepted and to feel safe.

But no one looks back fondly on a life of hiding.