There is an observation that has been occupying my mind for quite some time. It began as a personal feeling, then gradually became a question, and eventually evolved into a hypothesis about the society we live in. I am not presenting this as an established fact. It is an attempt to understand a pattern I believe I have been observing. The World Adults Seemed to Live In As children, adults appeared to belong to a completely different world. They spoke differently. They behaved differently. They carried themselves with an air that felt distant from childhood. Some were kind, some were harsh, some were arrogant, but very few retained the openness and curiosity that children naturally possess. I often wondered how they became like that. Did something happen suddenly? Would I wake up one day and find myself transformed into the same kind of person? Years passed. I reached my mid-twenties. Yet I never experienced the dramatic internal change I had expected. Instead, what happened was t...