When I grow up I want to be not grown up

There is no such a thing as being grown up. I used to play World of Warcraft and Star Wars Battlefront with my younger sister to which I could almost be her mother if I was a few years older.

And if you think that's odd then you should have seen a LAN party we had back in 2009: my younger sister, my older sister, my mother and myself all playing TrackMania Nations Forever .

Sure, at work I'm fully professional as I'm an analyst in a certain bank's technology department but that doesn't mean that I'm willing to live like that my personal life. There I prefer shopping, games and fruit cakes!

Mcodl has it right..

Or as I like to think about it "I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up".

One of our Planetside 2 regulars is in his fifties. Take that, society!

Being "grown up" is a state of mind. It's perfectly possible to be a mature, contributing adult and still enjoy things children/teenagers/whoever do.

Having turned 25 today, I still enjoy the crap out of Lego. And I figure I will when I'm 50.

Other than that, what mcodl said

Now that I think about it more you have to be grown up when you move from school to real life. Then you have actual responsibility for your life and later on the responsibility for your own family.

What happens when you don't do a few homeworks? Pretty much nothing. What happens when you don't pay a month or two of your mortgage? Or worse: dare not to fill in the taxes .

Otherwise nothing really changes unless you or someone else makes you change it. Still I would never go back to school. Firstly I'm not an academic type (although even my doctor mentioned to me to get a doctorate) and secondly universities in Czech are terribly behind when it comes to IT anyway.

Incorrect. You have to be mature and have a sense of responsibility. However, I think being "grown up" is a state of mind, and not always a good one. And being grown up, or not, has nothing to do with your sense of responsibility and duty. At least that's how I look at it. I suppose it's also semantics.

And possibly translation. In Czech grown up (when referring to a person from a psychological, not physical point of view) and mature is pretty much understood as one and the same. But who cares as long as we have some sort of common agreement .

Edit: Minor correction