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Many people have said that Michael had a very childish attitude (E.G playing with super soakers, watching cartoons and visiting Disney Land) but his approach to life was actually more mature than the people who feel that they need to put away things from their childhood when they get older
Here's a great quote from C.S Lewis which I Think sums up Michael's situation very well
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult 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 have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am 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.”
So Michael was the real mature one in all this for not being afraid to enjoyed what he enjoyed and not be embarrassed by it
Here's a great quote from C.S Lewis which I Think sums up Michael's situation very well
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult 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 have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am 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.”
So Michael was the real mature one in all this for not being afraid to enjoyed what he enjoyed and not be embarrassed by it
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