I had a discussion with my father about this and came to an interesting conclusion: adulthood follows along a similar paradox to Theseus’ Ship.
When we were children, we saw adults as a constant. They were adults. We never experienced them transitioning into adults. As such, we are unable to discern how it happened, and we have no precedent for what it looks like when an adolescent turns into an adult, so we cannot mark that point.
Fast forward to today, the people who were adults when we were 10 are still adults, and the people who were teenagers when we were teenagers are still teenagers. Like Theseus’ Ship, small things were changed, but they remained the same person as we observed them.
In an interesting paradox, many of us were never given an absolute threshold to cross, or conditions that ascertained adulthood, and it was impossible for us to derive them growing up, so we simply don’t know where - following the Theseus narrative - we stop being the same ship.
So now I’ll let you in on the secret of adulthood: The only reason your parents/elders were adults was because you perceived them as being more responsible and capable than you; they saw themselves the same way you see yourself now. If you want to be an “adult”, all you have to do is be responsible, capable, and self-reliant and the rest will follow.
However, he left me with some important words: Poop jokes never stop being funny, but a sign of maturity is that you can push them aside for a moment to take care of business and enjoy them when you’re done.
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