Growing up isn’t losing your childhood. It’s carrying it with you into new places.

Becoming an adult is not an eviction from who you were. The curiosity, the humour, the things you loved at eight are meant to come along, and the idea that maturity means abandoning them is a story nobody can really justify. Most of the adults you like best kept a lot of theirs intact.

Keep one thing you loved as a kid and do it this month without apologising for it. The rest of growing up happens on its own anyway.