Pre Adult

On a recent radio program on NRP a woman author described what she considers a common condition in our society, people in a pre adult status. The individuals used to be called young adults but game has changed. I guess in earlier times the YAs were people in transition to adulthood, pre adults are people who do not want to move on to adult status. Why do it anyway? It will probably compromise you even further than when you were stuck in some kind of young adult transition situation (?).

The author cited a book which has been on the New York Times best list for books for weeks and weeks, "I hope they serve beer in Heaven," I think that is the title. & thus other parallel attitudes and conditions might be called up to describe a situation where you would rather dwell in a middling pre adult situation rather than making choices otherwise. As I mentioned earlier, elsewhere, in response to my question about involvement on vicarious sports on television one of my sons described the event (Superbowl?) as a national holiday. Why not drink your ever loving brew during a national sports holiday, what else to do? Wine, come on.

How do you grow up in a world as confused and compromised as this one. Why not ride it out with a twelve pack or better a keg? We are encouraged to indulge in pastimes which are bathed in violence and self forgetfulness, and the advertisements tell us all that it will all go better with a libation of some kind. Kick back, brothers and sisters, this too shall pass.