For me PPS is not about not wanting to take responsibility... but about not wanting to grow up to be a priate!

I'm quite happy to accept my acutal age and he responsibilities that go along with it. What I don't want to be is the kind of boy hating, can't stand kids, workaholic, grumpy adult that forgets he was ever a boy and can't play for quids... ie: a pirate.

I'd rather be an indian... still lives in the jungle, still runs about half naked, still plays with the lost boys. WOOT!

There are two Scriptures that I've been trying to bring into balance in this senario.


1 Cor 13: 11 "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."
Which, in context, is not a command but a commonsense analogy used to illustrate a point about God's unfolding revelation but nevertheless IS commonsense that as one grows there are adult responsibilities to be taken on and weaknesses of childhood that need to be matured.

and

Matthew 18:3 "And he (Jesus) said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
Which implies that there are certain qualities of a childlike attitude that are necessary to being a godly man.

Somewhere in there is a balance between taking responsibility and holding onto the strengths of our childhood attitudes.

Every older adult I speak to wishes they could still be in a younger body and mind. Where they want to go back to is subjective. Some want to return to their twentys or thirtys... others to their late teens... for myself and some other boylovers I've discussed this with it's our preteens.

I don't see this as unhealthy. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm just holding onto something that is important to me without neglecting my adult responsibilities in the process.

And to clarify I would see myself as having a Narcisiistic fixation AND Peter Pan syndrome, though I think the two overlap so much as to be impossible to separate.

Blessings
Cat.