As an Adult, I.

[Neo Emolga]

I feel the same way. As a kid, adult life seemed horribly boring, unimaginative, and mundane. True, for some people it is, but those people choose to be that way. The thing is you don't have to be. Being an adult means YOU get to decide how your own story keeps going. If you want to be serious, boring, and mundane because that's how you feel you comfortably mature, that's up to you. There are some that keep saying "oh, act your age," but that's all a selective perception. At the end of the day, age is just a number. There's no personality traits tied to age numbers, so all that number ends up being is just how many times people sang Happy Birthday to you.

The most interesting people I know aren't "normal." They aren't "status-quo." They didn't change themselves because society said so or because someone said to them "mature" like it's the magic word to make them grow up and become complacent.

Sure, some things you grow out of, but you don't have to grow out of everything. You don't have to grow out of being imaginative, creative, and unique. Those that do are typically very dull. Ask yourself, would you rather hang out with an animator at Pixar, or an accountant? Who do you think has more interesting work stories to tell? Whose work do you think gets remembered more and gets seen by more people?

Don't be status quo. I find the more you try to blend in with everyone else, the more you just disappear into the crowd.