Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20181104041616/@comment-37627195-20190101071119

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a child at heart. In fact, Narnia writer C.S. Lewis made a very profound quote about that,

"Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would be ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I'm fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up,".

Think of how intelligent the following quote I just posted is. Here's the way I think of it:Whenever someone bullies you for being "immature", remember that they themselves are the truly immature ones. Bullying others for being different is by far the most childish and juvenile thing a person can do, so if someone makes fun of you for liking Pokémon or Littlest Pet Shop as an adult. That person is just a big hypocrite who at the end of the day, is the true childish one in that situation.

I believe that being considered mature has nothing to do with stuff like watching cartoons or anime, playing video games, reading comic books, cosplaying, collecting toys, etc. Instead true maturity depends on things like the way you treat others, how you react in stressful situations, whether or not you take responsibility after you screw up, and always remaining honest.

I've never understood why so many people believe that enjoying types of media made for kids automatically makes you a manchild/womanchild. Ironically, most of those people probably love things like Family Guy, Jackass, and Beavis & Butt-Head themselves. While all of those shows carry the adult label, when you think about it:Isn't a show loaded with fart, dick, and 9/11 jokes basically the definition of childish humor. Those same people who make fun of you for liking Pokémon probably go home afterwards and laugh at things like the Griffin family having a vomiting contest or Stewie saying "Eat my poop, Brian" repeatedly for no reason. Rather ironic, isn't it?