In a book called Peter Pan, Peter Pan doesn’t want to grow up because he doesn’t want to face the challenges of growing up. In this essay I will talk about pains that my parents have. The first pain of growing up is taking care of yourself; the second one is the pain of taking care of the family; and the third pain is realizing that the world is not perfect and that everyone is capable of doing the bad things.
The first pain is taking care of yourself. When you grow up and you don’t have your parents, guardians, or other people by your side to help you with your life all the time. You’re on your own when you grow up. You have to solve difficult problems when you grow older (not exactly math problems). Thinking about solving your problems might be scary if you haven’t grown up yet. But you have to learn to solve these problems because there is no Neverland where you can never grow up. That is very tough.
The second pain is taking care of your family. If you're a grown up, you have to take care of the family because it’s your responsibility. If you do something wrong or forget to do it, it could mean a lot for people depending on you. For example, if you didn’t finish your work in time, or you didn’t do your work, you wouldn’t earn money, and you can’t take care of your family. That makes life harder for a grown up.
The third pain is realizing that the world is not perfect and everyone is capable of doing bad things. Realizing that there really is no clear cut between an evil person or a good person and everyone can be both is extremely hard. For example, we learned from school that Hitler is an evil person. But in reality, everyone including ourselves can do the same things that Hitler did given the right time, right place, and right situation. So we should not be judgemental, and at same time we should not be surprised by human nature.
There are a lot of pains of growing up, but these are the top three pains that my parents have told me. It’s very hard to think about the pains of growing up. But my parents also assure me that when you grow up you will find that it is worth it. My parents told me that I just need to be prepared, and to do things to make all the pains and suffering meaningful.
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