Stuck In Lansing: Page four
	Warning:  The typical free-will response will be to make every effort to look like an Adult.  Wrong!  No amount of direct effort will result in Adulthood.  Sorry!  No short-cuts!  It would be the same as pretending you were in Gaylord while standing at the corner of Sagninaw and Pennsylvannia in Lansing.  It's a waste of time!  Lansing is Lansing, and Gaylord is Gaylord.  It's a journey.  For some, it's a quest. Later articles will provide an analysis of the ladder to Adulthood.  It's Maslov's hierarchy of needs ladder.  It makes sense, but like most ladders, you have to start at the bottom.  You aren't at the top until you'ver climbed to the top.  You aren't an Adult until you have put your foot on each rung of Maslov's Ladder and mastered it!  It's a mind-game, really.  It pretty much happens in your brain.  That's why physical children cannot achieve Adulthood.  Their brains haven't developed to the point of being capable of abstract thought, and if anything is abstract, Adulthood, Mature Spirituality, or Self-Actualization, whichever handle you choose to use, smashes the competition to smithereenes!
		Main Content Page: Return to Philosophy Content Page