Be Unreasonable

When I was a kid and people would ask me to be grow-up or become mature - When I was a kid and people told me to grow up—to be mature—it always sounded like a polite way of saying: adjust. Fit in. Dull your edges. Make peace with the rules. It felt like a slow betrayal of me, like being asked to trade in my wildness for a seat at the big boy table. I didn’t like any of it. Still don’t. However, in…