Feb 20, 2008 | Lucas
I was in my car driving by a park earlier this evening when I saw a young kid with a stick hitting his stroller at full force while his mother just kept pushing it along and talking with her friend.
This made me realize how important it is for us to mature as we grow up. Imagine if adults did the same thing this kid was doing. All of a sudden they'd get out of their car with a baseball bat and start hitting it as hard as they could. Wouldn't that be a funny sight?
Since it's a little kid committing this violent action though, it barely even gets noticed. I'm sure the average person walking by wouldn't even notice it, let alone care! But if you saw a full grown man doing it you'd probably think he was messed up in the head and he'd make the front page of the community newspaper the next day.
This reminds me of back when I was in grade two and I was running around with my friends in the school yard at recess pretending I was riding a motorcycle. Somehow, some day, we just stopped playing that game but I can't pinpoint an exact moment in time (although it did happen, trust me!). You just don't see grownups, or even teens, doing the same thing.
It's amazing how much we grow and mature over such a short time span of our life. We implicitly "know" what the social norms are at our specific age (for the most part, at least) while never really being taught them from a book or by a teacher. We learn these behaviours through simple observation. We see and try to imitate what other people do or avoid doing.