If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Growing up involves facing mortality as life ends. It highlights the shift from learning to live to accepting death.
- In plain terms
- Youth is for learning life; adulthood is for facing death.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept mortality as part of growing up.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does growing up mean to you?
- How do you view aging?
Another view
It oversimplifies the purpose of adulthood.
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