What is the difference between childhood and adulthood? Do you think the only difference is between, that of innocence and ' hypocrisy ' ?
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“Childhood is where every conscious child wants to be an adult Adulthood is where every adult secretly want to be a child again”
In childhood every child have that innocence, for which everyone love them, but once they grow up and become adults, they keep losing that innocence to the cruelties of the real world
So childhood is innocence and Adulthood is innocence lost
In Childhood every child is dependent on someone all the time for everything, so they long for freedom or independence or power in general to run their life themselves only to realize the truth once they grow up.
So Childhood is dependency and adulthood is independence
In Childhood every child is learning all the time, consciously or unconsciously. In a way preparing herself for the real world full of grown ups, this learning tends to keep dying down in most of us when we grow old. As an adult we are not as curious as a child towards our surroundings or for that matter for anything happening around us. So a child is curious but adulthood in strange ways kills that curiosity.
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Yes, independent thinking is a step towards adulthood. As a child, one is not able to make one's own decisions and one's thinking is always influenced and directed by adults. A child is so innocent that it is not able to distinguish between truth and imagination.