Do you remember being a kid and observing the grownups around you as official representatives of adulthood? Looking up and around like, “Oh no, this is what it will be like for me someday.” How dreadful the inevitable was, I thought.
To me, adulthood seemed like a new cage to walk into, straight from the cage of adolescence. Not a period of freedom or exploration, more like a new, earthly death. This is…
