start of english assignment on coming of age
Coming of age is a young persons transition from childhood to adulthood these few years in every humans life are usually a tumultuous time of self introspection. Were one really examines there own character becomes more aware of there own flaws. What really classifies you as fully grown? In some cultures it is the age of sexual maturity, in others it is the age of religious responsibility and in our own it is usually the age that you become legally responsible for your own actions and any deviation from the law that you make you are now fully accountable for. This transition includes not only social and biological changes but psychological changes as well. Those of us lucky enough to reach adult in the 21st century are programmed organic computers we cannot escape our nature as programmable entities. Experience creates personality, every experience that you have been through has shaped you think of a baby as a piece of clay.
have you ever heard a recording of yourself and said that isnt what i sound like do i really look like that
maybe human kind has gained this level of intelligence and no further, because if we had anymore insight anymore self perception we would lose the will to exist
If we are lost in a forest, it is wise to climb a mountain or tree to gain some sense of location, and to see potential dangers in the way ahead. the latin root of the words reason and rational is ratio. therefore to reason is to theoretically disconnect and evaluate. This is the origin of objectivity to isolate yourself and analyze yourself with what is comprehended. In the midst of coming age i have realised my ability to reason and rationalize has improved sevenfold.
topics to cover
dealing with guilt
rationalizing doing the wrong thing
reactive emotions
distortions of reality