The is an upside and a downside to growing up. By growing up I mean acting like a mature, rational, and curious adult of judgment and discernment, with a desire to discover what is actually occurring and then displaying a preference to deal with it as it is.
The upside is that the discerning adult is most able to gift deft responses to what occurs each day. She handles the duress of most new occurrences very well.
The downside is the loss of a handy set of illusions to exist within, so that the harshness, coldness and turmoil turmoil, wrought upon one's psyche by disturbing new occurrences, must be dealt with head on.
The other downside is the naked obviousness of her failures to cope with new occurrences. She has shed the right to have ready excuses at hand to justify her failure.
The long term upside to dealing with the new and alarming is that what has not killed her makes her stronger. She has become a pretty tough cookie and is a winner at dealing with life's events as they come to her.
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