Entry 65: Proving One’s Self

There must be some kind of biological reason behind why young people do all kinds of crazy things to prove themselves mature, since this happens to the very first human beings and to people today. Maybe this is just another result of our superior intelligence, because we not only learn from each other, we envy one another. When a person is growing up, he or she wishes to be just like the adults because there are certain things kids can't do and grown-ups can. There is also the awful thing called pride and vanity. We humans always want to do thing to make ourselves feel like we are better than the others. The same concept applies to why young people like to show-off, I guess. Most of the time this need for proving oneself mature leads to pretty foolish decisions. I remember the time when my mother and I sent my sister to university she made us really upset by acting rude. She claimed that it made her feel childish to have us helping her carrying stuff to her dorm and she fussed about things a lot. We understood that she wants to be independent, but still her behaviors during that time hurt feelings. I would say it was rather pointless for her to act like that, although it did help us to want to get rid of her sooner. But that was only temporarily. My mother cried and prayed for her on the airplane back home.