“PLAYFULNESS” NOT ENDS WITH END OF “ADOLESCENCE”
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Adolescence period is for about 5 to 6 for human beings, for girls it ends at 16 & for boys it ends at 18, so adolescence starts for girls at 10 or 11 year of the age & ends at 16, for boys it begins at 12 or 13 & ends at 18.
So “16” is given so much of importance for girls in Indian myth.
But “childlikeness & playfulness” does not go with end of adolescence period; it remains even after end of adolescence, depending upon one’s nature & mental construction.
Playfulness can well remain in old age even, it’s a good sign & a very good behavioral pattern.
And one at childhood age & adolescence time can be abnormally serious & quiet like an old age person.
So it is an individual nature, dependent on person to person.
Any living being’s general nature is playfulness, not only that, also playfulness is must, it is absolutely necessary for a person of any age, yes at childhood this playfulness is more evident, there is more playing around, in groups it (playfulness) takes another form, that is in groups playfulness teaches us how to interact, how to live & act together.
Playfulness also takes another form with age, that is knowledge seeking, measured behavior & watchful steps are also part of the playfulness, which we learn right from playfulness & childhood curiosity.
So always be playful & encourage playfulness for a healthy life.
Subhro Das
Conceptualized 08/05/10, Written 05/11/11
(This is from my own experience & observation)
