the.com/coming of age
The universe's cruelest plot twist: realizing nobody actually knows what they're doing.
global ritualNearly every culture invents a ceremony to mark it
brain realityPrefrontal cortex finishes maturing around age 25
legal ageAdulthood threshold varies wildly by country and right
literary genreBildungsroman novels exist solely to chronicle it
old originsJewish bar mitzvah dates back over two millennia