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When you study, you are constantly having to make choices. Will you go to today\u2019s lecture or not? Will I take out the highest possible loan with DUO or take a job alongside my study? And if I work, how will I organise the rest of my time?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, your textbooks provide no advice about what might be your best option. You have to find that out yourself. But it\u2019s difficult to choose, and the older you get, the more difficult it seems to get.<\/p>\n

Decisions automatically involve responsibility, and responsibility is associated with adulthood. According to the Van Dale, \u2018adult\u2019 means the same as \u2018mature\u2019. I think that it means something quite different, although I\u2019m not quite sure what. Perhaps \u2018sensible\u2019 is the nearest meaning.<\/p>\n

Fewer poor choices<\/h3>

In general, I make quite sensible choices: I prepare for my exams properly, I try to build up a CV alongside my studies and I do things that I enjoy at moments that suit me. Sometimes I go to a midweek concert, but I always wear earplugs. On the other hand, I don\u2019t mind eating spaghetti with mayonnaise if I don\u2019t feel like doing any shopping.<\/p>\n

I finally rid myself of the illusion that people who are older than me always transcend my level of adulthood when I first saw Alexander Pechtold and Geert Wilders debating with each on television. Yet respecting the elderly is a widespread custom. Because: \u2018wisdom comes with the years\u2019. But the fact that older people have more life experience than young people doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they are wise \u2013 let alone mature. They just make fewer poor choices.<\/p>\n\n\t

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When is a person mature? Is it something to do with a physical state? Or is it impossible to say, because every human body changes until it dies. In that sense, change is synonymous with life, but whether you can call all change growth is debatable. The poet J.C. Bloem even wrote: \u201cevery change is deterioration, even an improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what to conclude, and probably all this confusion will always make it difficult to act as a sensible, mature adult. But maybe I\u2019ll obtain new insights when I eat my spaghetti with ketchup in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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