What if

What if, deep down, all of us - even you adults out there - are just kids?

I got to thinking about this after watching "Win Win", a movie about a New Jersey lawyer trying to keep his struggling practice afloat. Other aspects of the movie aside, the way that the lawyer (Mike) deals with his problems is rather... childish. The way his wife reacts to news and unexpected events in her life is also childish, and the way that Kyle - the teenage protagonist in the movie - deals with his problems with is mother is DECIDEDLY childish.

As to specific examples, I can't think of that many right now. Other reviewers can do that quite competently, but what I want you guys to keep in mind is; you are childish too, to some degree. So what separates you from other  children? What makes you special? Well, for one thing, what makes you SMART is the way you deal with your problems. Do you deny that they exist? Do you lie about them? Or do you do the adult thing and try to re-frame them in your mind, maybe crack a joke or two about it, and then set about trying to FIX them?

THAT is what makes an adult, an adult. If you do not actively work to recognize and fix the problems in your life, you are mentally a child. So you can boil this message down into one sentence; take responsibility for your life by actively engaging with it. THAT is what makes you different from rats in a maze.