pretendocity

This separation between childhood and adulthood is complete bull shit. I'm just saying it. There is no good reason to separate the states.
  You start off playing as natural course and everything comes from that, learning, joy, freedom, expression, communication, building, language, whatever. And little by little this fucked up idea of what is appropriate adult behavior is introduced until the poor individual has lost completely the ability to play at all and makes a perfect...whatever it is we become.

     Domestication.

Not the kind that teaches us how to respond compassionately or to carry responsibility or to make and maintain deep, meaningful relationships. Not the kind that teaches how to care for the self and another, how to navigate emotional states, how to manage loss and success, how to develop the self in the community of others....not that.
 
  But the kind that keeps us afraid of ourselves and afraid of others, that makes us need to control, that teaches us to use coping mechanisms that close off creativity and healthy expression in favor of keeping the horrid status quo of suffering and obedience. It's the kind that teaches us pretentiousness, unworthiness, helplessness, dependency, isolation.

     We are tempted to give up playfulness in order to gain respect. We are enticed to exchange freedom of expression for acceptance and approval. We are convinced to let go of openness and honesty to  acquire power.

  Fuck that. There IS NO SEPARATION BETWEEN CHILDHOOD AND ADULTHOOD.

        No one ever grows up. We just grow.

   Quinceanera, bar mitzvah, graduation. Fuck all of it. Domestication tricks.