Just like in my youth, a willingness to engage in sports, has allowed me to meet a lot of wonderful people in different cities and countries. Getting out there and having fun promotes physical health and fosters social relationships. I feel bad for those youth today who are less inclined to play and more inclined to sit at home on their computer!

Russ

maturity is just a myth, I know sponteanous kids who are way more mature than a lot of adults including their parents.

often the ambiguos concept of maturity just hides one's mental lazyness and couch potato attitude. Overly seriousness and haughtyness is just a mask people wears because they don't believe in themselves so they need to believe in something else to the point of narrowing their mind and having a dogmatic attitute. Not taking yourself too seriously is actually a sign of maturity. Being open minded, accepting new information and exploring new paradigms, critical thinking about things are actually all signs of maturity that most adults with their nihibited lifestyle and nonsense maturity-lie lose while kids have lot of them.

I like what Leonard Botstein (insightful president of Bard College who had great success with experimental university level schools for teens and that wold abolish high school for good) says about the hypocrisy of the adult identity:

"We define adulthood in a way that is not actually true. We say adulthood is all about circumspection and self-denial and responsibility — all high-minded moral talk. It’s not the way adults actually behave"

True, it's not the way it is, but's it a common myth that justifies all the faking, lying, pretending, acting of adulthood.

A great socioligist Henry Lafebvre even considers adulthood a myth, a stupid social construction. That's what he said:

"adulthood is a myth, a myth presented by adults to their juniors. Adulthood means that a social group, well organized and also possessing a number of solid structures, takes control of the life of the person who is said to have reached adulthood and subordinates and integrates him or her firmly into itself. From the moment these "adults" are firmly integrated in one of these social groups we see them turning into very important people people, decorated, bedribboned and just childish. So adulthood is a myth because it infantilizes people in the very process of "integrating" them with terrible force into narrow social structures. I believe it's one of our society's most oppressive myths, and that's why I'm on the side of everyone, young or not so-young, who does not believe in adulthood"

Most adults are just insicure, narrow minded and angry at the world because they're angry at themselves. I can't believe how many adults I've known talk down to kids as if their life was so damn of full of responsibilities and be-strong moments, while the kids they talk down too are often a lot stronger and less wimpy in dealing with situations and problems.

Most adults are usually sedentary, junk eaters, lazy thinkers and as they lose all these great qualities that defined them as "humans" when they were kids, they develop an irritating haughtiness and arrogance, taking everything damn seriously and feeling superior to younger people, as if in need of a surrogate (i.e. fake-power) to the real-power they're losing.

Let's face it: most adults are inhibited immature control freeks and constantly on a power trip. Maybe if they had stronger bodies leading to stronger mind leading to less whining and more acting; they wouldn't need fake control and power so much.

Thanks for the article, will be back soon to read up on more

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But, yeah, I know exactly what you mean by the games we used to play outside and all the running and fun we had. There werent as many indoor choices and parents were confident letting their kids out. Today we have to fear everything, to include dodgeball.

Soon all the kids will be sitting from sunrise to sunset. Then off to bed. Pretty bleak.

This all reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode, "Kick the Can". Very cool concept. Just imagine…

I don't know if you remember my article about beach workout, i've talked about this, by saying that my best shape ever was when i spent weeks at the beach, just swimming, running around, playing ball, diving, simply having fun all day long, i was working out without working out.