Growing up means you realize there is no finish line.

We can try to cheat life by wanting to get more than we are willing to give. Sooner or later, however, all such refusals to grow or to give up old attitudes will backfire. Because life cannot be cheated. Wherever we refuse to grow—mentally, emotionally, spiritually—our life experience will be correspondingly shallow and unsatisfying.

Almost Nobody Wants to Grow Up. We think it’s too hard. We would rather focus on what’s wrong with us and why we can’t do anything about it. We don’t want to take care of ourselves because that means giving up the wish to be taken care of by someone else. “I want my mother to do it. She should have done it but she didn’t. I’m going to stay stuck ri