Life's Journey

I am trying to wrap my mind around when we, humans, actually grow up. What is maturity based on? Why is it so difficult, in my household, to figure out the right direction to go in?

I mean by society's standards we should have had like 12 years of our "careers" under our belt, a retirement fund, land to pass down through the generations, blah, blah, blah...But we still don't know who we are. We are slowly inching in that direction. But not there yet.

Sorry so random...just what I was thinking today.