Most of us assume that adulthood arrives automatically, sometime after we’ve paid enough bills and learnt to reply to emails without so many exclamation marks.
But psychological maturity doesn’t always keep pace with our calendars. Many of us remain emotionally stuck at earlier stages of development — not because we’ve failed, but because we were rushed, interrupted, or never quite given the chance to grow properly.
What it really means to be a grown-up, then, is to acknowledge that it is less of an assumed state, and more of an unfinished task.
