Angel Season 2: Making Adult Decisions (early access)
The moral case for understanding trade offs and that you can't live in a black and white moral system.
How do you make an adult decision?
More importantly, what makes something an adult decision? When you're a kid, things seem very simple and obvious. You either accept responsibility for something or you don't. You live with the consequences of something or you don't. There are good people and there are bad people. It's up to the good people to make sure the bad people don't do terrible things to innocent people. These ways of thinking are pretty straightforward. You don't have to think about them all that much. Especially because the people who are bad can be easily identified by their angry faces or their tendency to say and do the wrong thing. Why wouldn't you think that the world was that simple when you become an adult? Sadly, the world is a lot more complicated than that.
Previously in this space, we looked at what it means to leave high school behind. To build adult relationships with people around you. But that's not the end of the process by any means. Once you've left high school behind and decided to act more like an adult, you have to figure out what living as an adult looks like. How you lean to maintain these relationships by keeping yourself functioning. Sometimes that requires you to make an adult decision. One that might seem like it's good at the time but later on could end badly. That despite our best efforts, the world doesn't fit into neat little categories of good and bad. There are shades of grey.
“I thought I was out of the tunnel. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and the light was so bright... I thought I was already out.”
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