You be the adult. Then I can be the child.

[humble soul]

Have you ever come across adults who don't want the adult role? And prefer the child role? I could be projecting my own issue here. By that I mean that I prefer the child's role often. It allows me to be more creative and foolish. The adult role can easily stress me.
yet now and then I bump into adults even more childish than me. They refuse to take an adult role and expect me to be the "mature' one. I can do that for a while but it doesn't seem to suit me all that much.
Why cant we all be mature? I hear you say. I don't know. Perhaps there is a way of being the "mature child". Acting foolishly, yet with a serious mature intent. I have not mastered that yet

 

[humble soul]

I recently bumped into another child/adult at work. They wanted me to take responsibility for their new assignment. They asked questions down to the last detail. I felt like saying "You are a big girl. You can solve a lot of these problems yourself" but I didn't. Instead I said " I don't normally have to answer so many questions".
I think adults generally prefer the adult role but I could be wrong. the power that comes with it perhaps? When you are the child, you are at the mercy of the adult's decisions??

 

[Luminous_Rose]

I believe there is a big difference between being child at heart, but also knowing when to be mature. I have met some truly childish adults and it is off putting.

There is one I knew of and only hear about him because he is one of my friends co-workers (unfortunately) and his mom is the boss so he gets away with it. He lives with mommy in his 30s and has never been on his own. He only has a job because his mother hired him - otherwise he would probably still be on his many year unemployment streak playing video games for hours on end. Apparently he got away with bringing a nerf gun to work and shooting foam darts at people during business hours. Immature things like that. I mean it is a work place and it was done with an intention to be obnoxious and to make people think it was a real gun. It is this kind of thing that makes me want to roll my eyes and say, "Grow up."

 

[humble soul]

I believe there is a big difference between being child at heart, but also knowing when to be mature. I have met some truly childish adults and it is off putting.

There is one I knew of and only hear about him because he is one of my friends co-workers (unfortunately) and his mom is the boss so he gets away with it. He lives with mommy in his 30s and has never been on his own. He only has a job because his mother hired him - otherwise he would probably still be on his many year unemployment streak playing video games for hours on end. Apparently he got away with bringing a nerf gun to work and shooting foam darts at people during business hours. Immature things like that. I mean it is a work place and it was done with an intention to be obnoxious and to make people think it was a real gun. It is this kind of thing that makes me want to roll my eyes and say, "Grow up."

sorry but gotta laugh at shooting foam darts at work colleagues! ?
sounds like an episode of The Office. And interestingly the boss in that show, Brent was the classic narcissist child.
But that guy at your workplace sounds extreme. He wouldnt last any workplace Ive been in.

 

[Luminous_Rose]

sorry but gotta laugh at shooting foam darts at work colleagues! ?
sounds like an episode of The Office. And interestingly the boss in that show, Brent was the classic narcissist child.
But that guy at your workplace sounds extreme. He wouldnt last any workplace Ive been in.

It was my friend's workplace and dude is not nice. He works at a day care as the cook so he does so little and gets paid to slack the rest of the time. It might have been funnier if he wasn't scaring the kids by pretending he was a real shooter. That place needs new management. I feel bad for the kids there, their parents probably have no idea the owner and her son don't like kids.

 

[humble soul]

It was my friend's workplace and dude is not nice. He works at a day care as the cook so he does so little and gets paid to slack the rest of the time. It might have been funnier if he wasn't scaring the kids by pretending he was a real shooter. That place needs new management. I feel bad for the kids there, their parents probably have no idea the owner and her son don't like kids.

I am a school cleaner and daily I have to clean up around a day care while they are there. (no one wants us to work later because they would have to pay us more)
Anyway. I feel for any child care workers. Screaming kids who seem to rule the roost and bounce around the room. I get stressed just witnessing it.

 

[humble soul]

I was the 5th of 7 children. The oldest grew up with a feeling of responsibility from a young age. He almost became a surrogate parent.
Whereas I had few responsibilities and remained like a daydreaming child.
It was harder for me to transition to real adulthood.