While scrolling through Instagram a few days ago, I saw a post that said, ‘Grow Up.’ Though it was very cute, creative, and had plenty of likes, I started thinking about the pressure society places on us to grow…UP. From the day we’re born our lives and even our physical bodies are navigated in the direction of independence. Do you remember those "I'm A Big Kid Now," commercials? Though balanced with some dependence on our family, our prepubescent years are then filled with lessons on how to be mature, with hopes that we would someday be responsible adults; but, what if the focus of our lives isn’t centrally about growing up….

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