>>51877670"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.” - C.S. Lewis
This is the full quote, by the way. Not many people actually know it.Let me hit you with an extra one:
"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” - Also C.S. Lewis
While it's fine to grow up, lying to yourself about liking something because you see it as childish and shunning those who openly enjoy things that you label for children is, in essence, the height of acting like a child. If you don't like something, that's fine, but you need ask yourself why you're trying to encourage other people to not like something. Why are you still here wasting time? Why is this so important to you?
