One very funny thing about spending time around very young, freshly baked adults is seeing how much hubris they bring to everything.
Can't wait to spend time around people my current age and see what seems funny about them.
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It's the notion that the rest of us "haven't thought things through" that is the funniest.
Bitch, you don't even have the internal mechanisms for thinking fully operational yet.
I remember being like this, too, which makes it even funnier AND more obnoxious.
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I can vividly recall being infuriated with adults insinuating that 90% of my lived experience was encapsulated within theirs.
It isn't always true, but when it is, it really is.
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At some point, though, there's a disjunction. As you gain more autonomy, the divergence from typical experience keeps growing more acute.
But the hubristic "I know everything" phase comes long before that for most of us.
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I don't want to dismiss that energy entirely, though. Not even nearly.
Growing old and jaded and essentializing your own cultural experience is a much more severe problem than hubristic inexperience, and often seems to come from not being able to explore this side of things.
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The Fool's Journey is vitally important, and laced with tragicomedy.
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