Rather, what’s the definition of “grown-up”?

This post is inspired by a brief conversation with my friend Ty, this morning.  He asked me what the definition of ” grown-up”…and I gave kind of a blanket answer: minding your business and handling your own, paying your bills, being responsible- and if you have others who you are responsible to (ie: kids, spouse, etc.), then taking care of that.

Then Ty gave me the list of the things that he has heard defines being a “grown-up”:

• When you stop chasing women
• When you start taking in account the opinion of others
• It’s a mind state
• When your life gets boring
• When you have your first kid
• When you get your first job
• As soon as you’re done with school

We also talked about the fact that some people are forced to grow up due to circumstances in their life, and that being a “grown up” doesn’t equate to maturity- and neither does age.

Ty expressed that he’s more so concerned with the stereotype of being an adult- and how it seems that adults have no fun.  They just work Monday-Friday, have family time on the weekends, and a week of vacation in the summer.  Otherwise, it’s a pretty monotonous life.

So…when are you grown up…and what’s the definition of being grown up?