Grow

Grown-ups are too afraid to take responsibility, to accept the burden, to handle the truth. It seems that the more one grows old, the more one becomes afraid of the world; The more one becomes afraid of the world, the more one confuses selfishness to self-protection; The more one becomes selfish, the more one forgets his or her existence in a society; The more one forgets his or her existence in a society, the more one's living becomes self-defeating. 

Grown-ups are too proud of themselves, despite not exactly knowing why. I do not understand how can they still be proud of themselves if they even refuse to handle the truth. They might be proud of their gross pay, their investments, their ability to survive their little real world. However, I would like to think that grown-ups survive through burying the truth and not by letting them known.

I have grown, but I am not grown-up.