Question:“On becoming an adult”
On becoming an adult
Becoming an adult is not becoming someone who knows the answers. It is becoming someone who decides without knowing them. An adult signs without being sure.
Today, make one decision you have been leaving to others, in your own name. A small one will do. The moment you carry whatever follows, you are one year older.
When Telemachus told his mother that the bow was men’s business and sent her to her room, Penelope obeyed in astonishment. It was the first time she saw that her son had become a man.