Riff: what's my age again?
Personal take from absurdpirate (pirate?) on maturity, being age-appropriate, and how they are absurd concept as soon as you try to box them into something universal to all.
It has been a minute, maybe even two, since I was 27 like pirate, and you don’t become mature, you don’t start acting your own age, but instead you are mature and you act your age, or you don’t, and that’s fine.
I put it in those terms, as black / white switch, but you do get to reset those choices few times in your life, generally around big milestones (start working, kids, grief, new town, new crew) but is not a journey that you’re on to become something: you either sit firmly inside the expectations people have of you, or you don’t.
There is value in conformity, we all know that, we all conform to the rules of the group we are in, just sometimes (most of the time?) we don’t even know which group we are conforming to - we see ourself as the outsiders, or outcasts, without knowing it is us standing as the accused, the judge and the jury! It is quite the trip, life!
So, you are serious or you are not, what it means to be serious will depend on what group you pledge allegiance, you will always disappoint one group to make another proud: know your group and feel proud rather than disappointing.
And that’s my 2c on the subject for the day.