My age says I’m an adult but sometimes I think other people know more about being an adult than me.

  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Perhaps its because we assume a proportional relationship between ignorance and youth. But because its impossible to know everything we are doomed to feel ignorant frequently and therefore perpetually stuck in a state before the imaginary line between young and old

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      IME ignorance is just a function of your inability or unwillingness to learn. Mostly because you are afraid of being ‘wrong’ or making mistakes.