I learned yesterday that once you stop caring, that is when you have grown up. The reasons why you stop caring are very good-- to protect yourself from disappointment, or worse; to come to terms with a grim reality that repeatedly fails to live up to your expectations.
It is probably a smart move in terms of Darwinian fitness-- a defense mechanism similar to the turtle donning its shell over the course of evolution.
Apathy is a very grown up state of mind. Acceptance of "reality" and the "inevitable" is a grown up skill to acquire. On the other hand, trying again and again to make reality accept your own ideal-- that is youth. It is naive, and touching, and unfortunately a paradise lost for many...a paradise regained for some.
I learned this yesterday from watching a movie called Submarine.
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