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There is good reason for all of this anxiety. We will spend many of our adult waking hours at work, and we would like to enjoy the experience. Like security or shelter this drive is a passive concern, occupied chiefly with controlling our environment and the external world. We want to make life as pleasant as possible. At the most basic level we demand that the working experience meet the minimal conditions of human existence--namely that it not endanger anyone mentally or physically...
...while still teenagers, they began competing on an adult level. That year, the two went to the national competition and took second-place...
...here I am, an adult. In line for a Cinnabon...
...course, I'm a little bit in denial about this harsh reality. I tell myself that in six short weeks, I will not only be an Adult, but a Real World Adult. Maybe that will be more enchanting. However, the few tastes I have had so far of the real world have not been so promising...
...first few weeks of my Social Analysis course "Children and their Social Worlds," I learned that at age three, children begin to become entranced with the idea of becoming an adult. What the professor neglected to mention is that the novelty wears off at about age 22, just when it needs to kick...