I’ve been thinking about that on my own lately. It’s like the whole human race has imposter syndrome and thinks there needs to be an “adult” in the room.
I don’t know how many parents feel this way when bringing their first-born home from the hospital, but my spouse and I felt like the doctors were crazy to trust us, a couple of twenty-somethings, to take home a child and actually keep it alive and do all the things adults do for children.
Maybe that was wise of us to realize the level of our inexperience, but I think that feeling of inadequacy applies to most humans in many situations. We look for leaders to follow, intellectuals to learn from, heroes to worship, and monarchs to rule us. Otherwise, who is the adult in the room?
On taking custody of small humans, I like to say that if we weren’t able to make them at home ourselves we would definitely need a license to get one. It is illegal to own most other types of ape.
I don’t know how many parents feel this way when bringing their first-born home from the hospital, but my spouse and I felt like the doctors were crazy to trust us, a couple of twenty-somethings, to take home a child and actually keep it alive and do all the things adults do for children.
Maybe that was wise of us to realize the level of our inexperience, but I think that feeling of inadequacy applies to most humans in many situations. We look for leaders to follow, intellectuals to learn from, heroes to worship, and monarchs to rule us. Otherwise, who is the adult in the room?