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Gerascophobia: The fear of getting older

Remembering what it feels like to be a kid comes with joy, childhood life is a replica of mini paradise on earth.
Children are one of the less disturbed beings on earth, all they do is sleep, wake up, eat, learn and sometimes perform mild duties.

The fright of getting older comes when one sees the responsibilities attached to it and the changes in social interactions, it also comes when one notices the funs and happiness are gradually fading away, now the reality of life is getting dawn before the eyes, life is now seen as a battle, one have to fight for survival or perish.
This fright is mostly experienced by teenagers because they're intermediate between childhood and adulthood, they'll have the memories of there childhood being gradually wiped away by the realities of adulthood. They'll always see clear differences between the two, they'll always do comparisons and most often complain about things that favour their childhood but won't favour their adulthood.
They'll always remember how everyone always smiled at them during the childhood, how the police will always assure them of safety, how their parents always protect and hide them from the real world, how the doctors will cuddle and assure them that the injection needles doesn't hurt and they'll feel better soon, they'll remember what it feels like to be thrown into the air and caught as gravity pulls them back, they'll remember they never needed to work in order to eat.
All these memories are being wiped out by the harsh incoming world called Adulthood. At that point, they have to face reality, they have to work hard if they want to earn a living, nobody will have to ask about them anymore, even those that might just do that will do it rarely. They'll have to face the brutality of the military force even when they might not have committed any offense, they'll have to fear the sights of bullet trigger, they'll have to run away when the military comes for mass arrest of suspects. They'll always be like.... “does it mean I can now be imprisoned”, they'll wish to become children again, they'll wish they never reached that stage.
Actually, the military give teens more fright than any other factor.
This is the fear of most teenagers is becoming an Adult.

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