I'm just curious....I mean, here I am,now 40 engaged to be married. Yet, I still get an odd joy out of staying up too late watching cartoons, and I never pass up an opportunity to draw a cock on something.

Ever.

So, how about you?

You go around, drawing cocks on things?

O.....kay.

Anyway, I can't say I've totally grown up, either.

Though I've done all the grown up things outside of getting married and having kids, I am someone who keeps track of the upcoming video games and sometimes makes a point to get up early in the morning to watch the old "Transformers" cartoons on DF.

You are only as old as you feel.

I have friends, and hobbies that don't involve dick drawing.

You go around drawing male chickens on things? Are any of the things actually male chickens themselves, as that would be fascinatingly recursive.

Anyone who makes it to 40 without growing up doesn't have to. Being a grown-up is a trap anyway.

(I'm 48)

Really why would want to do that? I like being playful full getting wet and messy and NAKED I just cant sit around and grow old in a chair and watch TV

So that means you have friends that are involved in the dick drawing as opposed to the ones that aren't?

Because I'm skeptical of the non-dick drawing hobby friends, you know.

Yes and no. I am obsessed with financial management and being responsible about things I think are important. But I also make horrible immature jokes, still watch tons of cartoons (simpsons, south park, bob's burgers, futurama) and cheer about dicks and getting laid after sex.

I think this photo of my dinner last night sums up my weird mix of childish maturity pretty well, my horrible tasting kale, blue berry & strawberry smoothie in a "Flaming Moe's" glass that I got as a b-day gift to myself

Honestly I think the idea of being mature is something we think adults are when we are kids, having no idea of what said adults actually get up to when the kids aren't around. I don't know a single "mature" person. Not one. Whatever the hell "mature" means. I think as long as you can pay your own way in life and aren't living off other people you're doing great, and screw behaving in a "mature" manner. The few people I know that occasionally act as if they are mature adults are miserable bastards living inside a box worries about what other people think of them. Who wants to waste their time on planet earth doing that shit?!

Now where would be the fun in always behaving like a mature adult, let your inner kid out now and then and have fun, jump in puddles when no one expects it

Well stated... one has to grow old, but one need not grow up.. !
.. More people should embrace your logic..

That said, there are times when one needs to exhibit maturity.. but knowing that difference is being mature...

Fuck no. I'm over 50. I seem to have missed entirely this "mature" phase humans are supposed to go through as they age.
(Apparently, puberty, also.)

Boom! You nailed it.

The greatest level of responsibility I have ever had in my life was
for the learning & grading of students in the college math classes I taught.
I admit: I hardly "pay my way" in the traditional sense of what people think of as "a job". In some ways, I have taken more from this earth than I have given back.

However, that is also not my fault: it's outside my power.
Because, simultaneously, I feel responsible (on a grand scale)
for everyone who has ever existed or will ever exist.
And that is why I take my own personal research so seriously.

I don't know about anyone else's personal experiences in terms of what they do to survive. Not sure if you are lucky enough to be other-employed rather than self-employed. Not sure how many of you have had the
extremely rare luck of circumstances that science & math researchers have of being able to constantly chip away at human ignorance.

But, in those incredibly rare moments when a tiny, barely perceptible piece of human ignorance IS removed from our collective memories,
I feel it is the greatest act of maturity & responsibility one human can ever commit on behalf of all others.

That's one of the reasons I loved doing scientific research, however it was pure research so only other molecular biologist understood what I was doing. It's kinda funny actually, I was studying the genetic & molecular mechanisms behind regeneration, specifically in the nervous system. Then I lost the ability to work in a lab after suffering nerve damage so maybe one day my own research will be able to help with my disability. But that was purely coincidental, I wanted to do scientific research to advance human knowledge, not cure myself from a disability I didn't know I was going to end up with.

It does feel less fulfilling not to be able to give back to society but that is often out of our control.

No. And if I ever started acting like an adult I would kill myself.

My initial response would be "awwwwwhellls no", but on a recent trip back to the states, I was going through some old journals I wrote in high school. My adult self would say to my younger self, "Seriously? You think this is a big deal?" or "What the hell are you thinking?!?"
So with age comes experience, added responsibilities, and......grey hair. And to my younger self, yeah...I'm old. That sucks. But I'll be old to the new generation because I still listen to Pearl Jam and have never twerked (or....insert whatever younger people do these days) a day in my life.
I still enjoy comic books, slimings, and journal writing.

Are you telling me you've never even attempted to twerk?! Even if just joking around?! Oh heellllllzzz noooooo! Go on give it a try! And have someone film it so we can all have a good laugh together!! Also have someone throw a pie at your bottom. :devil:

Wonder what messy twerking would look like? could have a contest to see how far one could 'cast off' the ooze??

''The few people I know that occasionally act as if they are mature adults are miserable bastards living inside a box worries about what other people think of them''


Leila. ... I know lots of people like this, too.. Its worse dating them, ( if they're female).. but just sad overall...

Challenge accepted. I really should be less serious. Even if it's making fun of my horrible dance moves while being humiliated. Challenge to be completed on a later date.

Dare completed. Waiting for video to be approved. And will most likely delete it soon.

The immortal George Carlin demolishes the "mature" label for old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3nEDN9elI

At 55 (the both of us) our kids, all of adult age, think of us as a couple of horny teens. :devil:

"mature adult" is a fiction our puritanical society has sold us. There's no such thing.

There are "responsible adults", people who pay the bills, hold down jobs, and raise children/pets. But being "mature" and "responsible" are two completely different things.

Once you've done that, fuck it, do your thing. If that involves playing video games for longer than you should, or drawing phallic symbols on everything, knock yourself out.

Getting older is inevitable, growing up is optional

I own a t-shirt that says "Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult"
I wear bright pink Doc Martens boots with multi-coloured sparkly laces
My hair is currently purple
I chase bubbles
I play with balloons
I jump in puddles
I love anything sparkly and/or shiny
I mess about whilst watering the flowers and get myself wet

Do I sound like an adult? - being an adult is overated
Long live the inner child, life's to short to be a stick in the mud