Monday, March 23, 2015

Bildungsroman

"I saw a girl... woman... girl... today?"

At least, that's what my internal monologue is when I'm trying to summarise a patient case back. At what point do we stop being boys and girls and what-have-you and start being men and women and other more mature gender designations?

I wonder. I certainly don't feel like a man, whatever that is.

I remember people were saying that the HSC is the current coming-of-age but... it wasn't that bad, and I don't think I really learned too much from it all. (In terms of personal growth.)

Curious.
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Happy Apple said...

There is no clear delineation, of course. I think a part of us wants to stay young. Which is why grown men still call each other 'boys', and women call their girlfriends 'girls'.

Personally, I am quite afraid of that leap between 'girl' and 'woman'. I think it is the connotations of a woman physically and how society leads us to believe that a woman loses some of her worth in the ageing process, although I would like to be a woman in wisdom and emotions.

This is something I've contemplated for quite a while.

And HSC? Nah, not really too coming of age for me, either.

March 23, 2015 at 9:17 PM

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