My perspective on the quote

The quote itself means that the more you grow the less you question things around you, the things that make our world. I partially agree with this statement as it does seem that we loose this ability to wonder but in reality it is, I believe, not lost rather we simply have less time and need for it. It is an ability we all still have, we just use it less.

The process of growing up means learning, gaining information and knowledge through schooling, family, friends, the internet, books and so on, and by gaining experience. Once people have this knowledge about how things work it is only natural that they will wondered less about these things that make up our world. Why wonder, you know already. Wheels on cars are round because that’s the way they work. The world is here because it is. Why wonder about it, it is, so that is the answer. Many children often wonder, even marvel, at how airplanes fly. A quick look on the Internet and you know instantly, aerodynamics, no need to wonder anymore.

As most people grow up, they do wonder less about the world because their time simply filled by other things (work tasks, individual problems, school, music, sports, politics, family situations, etc.) and we don’t have any real time to wonder about the world and such things. That does not mean adults lose the ability to wonder, it simply means people do those things that are important to them. They basically prioritize these things over such things like daydreaming, wondering about the world.

Some people, as they grow up, become detach from or leave their imaginations behind. Others may even completely destroy it as it is not seen as being something adult do. To imagine is seen as childish, something children who don’t know better do, not for adults who face the real world day in and day out. Children imagine things up in their heads likely because they don’t understand and because they have time. Much of their process of play is often imaging things. Adults are busy working, making a living, surviving. The difference between children and adults is then that adults understand and live reality, the way it is.

However, it is not that adults have lost the ability to question the world, but rather that they are more at ease with the reality that is their world, the world that they better understand. They, for example, have a better understanding and knowledge about such key questions on life as how we came to be, why we are here and so on. They have taken a position and no longer feel the need to question any longer. This is also because they have grown to realize that pondering these questions wastes their time and their life is finite. There is no one answer. It is not their main concern, so they don’t leave time for imagining. Rather they do the things that held them and their families, things that will help contribute to their livelihood.

To conclude, I only partially agree with the quote as many, many people when they grow up stop questioning things or imaging about the world. However, this is more likely to be about having a better understanding, having less time to imagine and about having more important things to do that loosing the ability to wonder.