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And see, many of you have demonstrated your maturity in this. "Oh yes, Arbiter - I wholeheartedley agree with you! But there is a time and place for that sort of thing my good boy, and maturity is fun!" Don't kid yourself - 'growing up' just means more responsibility and less play. People who say 'grow up' are obviously demonstrating their social inhibitions - they are, in perhaps a roundabout way, telling you that you embaress them because the way you are acting has probably caught them off-guard and exceeded their expectations for social inhibition within another. People who expect things in life limit themselves to earthly credences and boring, predictable lives devoid of indulgence. People seem to be afraid to sin; to tell people whom they hate just how they feel, to tell people whom they love just how they feel, to spend money because it will affect their credit rating, to not do what they want to with the gift of live that's been given to them:
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Carolyn Burnham: Uh, who's car is that out front?
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To, essentially, create their very own hells here on Earth, just for the sake of living in heaven after they have left it.
To be a child is not just to be young - it is a hedonism in its purest form. It is happiness devoid of inhibition and lies and deceit and everything else that makes 'adults' think they are so goddamn special.
Not to say that children are innocent, or even pure - I know plenty of evil, cruel children and, as with anything, the lack of inhibition has a contemptably dark and evil side to it. Hell, even the pursuit of remaining a child has its drawbacks:
It's as somebody already stated - you must find the great balance in your life. This does not mean whatever is balanced between immaturity and adulthood within a single vessel - this means, just as Arbiter stated, only being an adult when you really have to. 
But whatever makes you happy, I suppose. The world needs tools who are so pent up by their own societal expectations that they do your every whim just to have a sniff at money. See this thread.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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