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The Trying Twenties
Xu Jing
The Master said: At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
子曰:吾十有五而志于学,三十而立,四十而不惑,五十而知天命,六十而耳顺,七十而从心所欲不踰矩。
According to Confucius, at what age can a person really grow into the adulthood and e mature? Do you agree?
At thirties. Gail Sheehy (specialize in the study of adult development) thinks there is a revolution in the life cycle. People today are taking longer to grow up and much longer to grow old. Adolescence is now prolonged until age 30. The period between age 18-30 is the provisional adulthood.
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How will you describe people in their twenties, of positive and negative characters?
Positive: incandescent with their energies, impatient to be on their own, eager to find own way of living in the world, ambitious, brave, curious, adventurous, vivacious, confident, optimistic, cheerful, straightforward
Negative: Changeable, baffled, confused, lovelorn (sometimes), rash, reckless, immature
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Twenty-somethings are formless and trying some provisional life structures which they may be not yet equipped with until they set a firm course at thirties. What are those tentative forms? Which one do you prefer given the second choice?
Go to graduate school
Get married early and try out different jobs to see which suits them best
Stay single and put their career first
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As these are the things that were once irrelevant, but now have e imminent. In a sense, they are going through the “trials" which are enormous as well as exhilarating.
Put the title into the right Chinese?
经受考验的20来岁
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Therefore, people in twenties are brimming with the inner fear as they are faced with problems never met before. I