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Sure, your 20s is the end of the easy part. Between natural growth of your body, and the hot-house environment of organized schooling, you can't help but grow.
by michael1999 3y ago
Sure, your 20s is the end of the easy part. Between natural growth of your body, and the hot-house environment of organized schooling, you can't help but grow. You become more capable and aware each year just by living. But you leave the greenhouse in your 30s. Your hormones stabilize, and the impersonal bureaucracies around you are more interested in extracting value than improving you. You miss it because youth is wasted on the young.
As an adult, any growth, or increase in personal capacity will only happen as the result of choices and actions you make. But you might be very surprised how much you can still grow. It is cliche, but I've watched a lot of men turn 40 and 50, and they are either in the best shape of their life, or heading downhill and picking up steam.
- JeremyNT 3y agoI really do like this conception of things. It's a lame truism but "life is what you make of it." At first everything is new, mere existence is the act of discovery and growth. As you age more you must have more intention behind your actions. Learn topics you understand on a surface level more deeply, invest more in relationships and in truly understanding relatives and partners, push yourself physically in directions you hadn't considered. There are still a lot of ways to continue to grow, even as the novelty of existence wears off and your body begins to age.