Adulthood or childhood, which is better?

Sitting down quietly and reminiscing on some of the realities of life, it dawned on me that life is in stages, the birth stage, the childhood and the adulthood. You can read more on the developmental process of a person right from his birth on Piaget theory.  Piaget explained how a child develop through the different stages of life.

Of course everyone desire to grow, no one wants to be stagnant, in the same position. People want to grow physically, emotionally, intellectually amidst other ramifications of life. All these show that people fancy growth in different areas of life.

Now childhood is somehow different from adulthood. Childhood is defined by many authors, however the main concept behind childhood is dependency. That is, a child in his or her childhood stage is dependent on his or her parents or guardian and somehow they need somebody (an adult preferably) to take care of them, they are immature and cannot make concrete decisions on their own. They even go to school and yet many of them does not know the real importance behind going to school. Some must have been coerced to go to school especially on their first day in school. This means most of the children actions or activities are directly influenced by their parents.

Adults are people who have reached a certain psychological stage in their life when they believe they are now responsible for their actions. They are fully grown men and women who have have their experiences in the subject matter of life. They occupy various positions in the society such as the role of a parent, teacher and other elderly ones we see around. Every Adults have passed through childhood stage which sometimes make me wondered which of the two stages of their life do they fancy most, their childhood or their current adulthood? Which do you prefer? Personally reaching adulthood is cool but we must not underestimate the euphoria of being a child too. I fancy childhood stage alot because of the following reasons;

Childhood stage is a stage of LESS OR NO WORRIES. A child didn't have to worry about anything, most of children needs are often being provided for them by their parents, their parents do the worrying not them. Children do not have to stress themselves out before they eat, all is provided for them freely. During childhood, you don't have any hard job to do to support the family, you just knew the money keep coming without knowing how, you are so precious in your little world. Childhood is different from adulthood whereby an adult has to worry about so many things, adults worry about what will happen to their careers, their families, their money and all that. As a result of the huge responsibilities they have to cater for, they often find themselves in a state of dilemma, they ruminate deeply before taking an action because they don't want to make the wrong decisions.

An adult life is characterized with constant worries on how to succeed, how to live right, how to be happy and all that. Children don't necessarily think too hard of all these. And that's why some when overloaded with many tasks and responsibilities can't help but wish to relive their childhood memories back again which is impossible, haha. You can only spend your childhood once. Even if you are subjected to cryonics you can't still go back to being a kid again, haha. Nevertheless adulthood can be fun sometimes too.

Another reason I love childhood stage is that religiously, a childhood stage is a stage of innocence. Well their knowledge is limited in some certain things. Children are always zealous to go to church and engage in church activities, sometimes their zeal do overpower that of some adults. Why adults have many things to do while kids don't have any business they are operating. Many do say it's easier to make heaven as a little child than a grown adult, haha that's funny though. Little children playing among themselves, loving one another as mates always make me feel going back to my childhood again, because of course I fancied that moment much more. Which of the stage do you like most and why? Share your thoughts with me. Thanks