The difference between childhood and adulthood is not about how many birthdays you have had. As a child you are far more concerned about wants and desires than an adult. As a child you are able to sacrifice what you need to do for what you want with fairly small consequences. As an adult your experience and wisdom does not allow your desires to outweigh your needs. Adulthood is about necessities and how to get them. You must personally do what needs to be done for you to get what you need to live. It is only if you have extra time or resource that you are able to afford wants.
In this day and age, in this country and select others, many (not all) people are able to afford wants; many people are able to not fully become an adult. The technologies that have become so common in recent years have allowed many of us to list entertainment as a need to live. Not all of us are children but many of us at least have some child left in us. However, they have also brought much more freedom to think, create and share ideas and ideals and evolve in many ways as a species. But is this modern evolution good or bad? Is it ideal to keep a certain amount of child in all of us? Is the so publicized "American Dream" to be a child?
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