40 Revolutions
During my childhood, I held the belief that adults possessed an entirely different mindset. Naturally, individuals have distinct worldviews, but I presumed there was a fundamental perspective that evolved as people reached certain stages in their lives, if that makes any sense. To illustrate, toddlers perceived the world as a playground, teenagers assessed what was considered cool or uncool, mothers instinctively knew how to care for infants, fathers possessed the ability to fix anything broken, and senior citizens found beauty within their own age group. These perspectives, I believed, were unchangeable. Toddlers couldn't fix things, mothers weren't seen as cool, and fathers were prohibited from playing games. That was my understanding. As I matured, I eagerly awaited these epiphanies to occur. Each year, when the clock struck midnight on my birthday, I half-expected something to click in my mind, transforming me into a different person from who I was at 11:59. I thought I w...