Science says: you are only truly adult at 30

One beer, to learn from carnival, that was the plan. It's starting to become a tradition. In the first weekend, you stay safely at home on the couch to let the wrinkles in your face smooth out, in the second we take a table at our favorite pub for the aftertalk. That was the intention this time too, until I cycled home swaying with my friend at half past four in the morning and as a bonus we both had a huge laugh. Three minutes in a row, it would have been less embarrassing if we had bumped into each other. ’We looked like we were 16,‘ I texted my best friend.

The morning after we looked at each other and burst out laughing. My god. Meanwhile, a video came in of the (it seemed like) three-quarter-hour karaoke version of Piano Man. By the way, this video will stay forever and ever in a closed circle. A bunch of highway robbers, did we really become 32 and 34 for that? The answer is: yes. Because research now says that you are only truly adult around the age of 30. So we are officially only two and four years fully adult. That explains us on Sunday morning at half past five.

Scientists studying the brain and nervous systems discovered that the legal age limit says absolutely nothing. At eighteen, the upper room still undergoes changes that greatly influence your later behavior. So you can't really pinpoint when someone is an adult. That can easily last until your thirtieth (or thirty-fourth). The transition to adulthood is a process, not just a night of sleep and done.

Thank goodness, because I still want to cycle home at half past five as a sixteen-year-old soon. Note to self: drink vodka then, it does something to your hangover.

Source: BBC