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by whstl 13 days ago
As someone slightly older than average here, one of the perks of maturity for me is not caring much about what others think anymore. Childish or cringe are fine.

But I don’t judge you: being a teenager or a young adult and rejecting such things is a rite of passage that we all go through.

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> When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

― C.S. Lewis

> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

― 1 Corinthians 13:11

> I also went to the stock market today. I did a business.

Vincent Adultman

I'm quite sure C.S. Lewis was referencing that explicitly.