Invisible Narrative Of Adulthood

    Invisible narrative is a one - sided representation of any discussed story that aims to convert everything in ideologies. I have researched and read an article that in a way show some invisible narratives discussed in their own point of view.

    One of the text that I read was by an author named Vi that talked about childhood behavior can still be seen in adulthood. As Vi states in his article, “The creativity of it is stunning – the effortless conjuring up  of alternate existences for the purposes of exploration, understanding, and above all of these, sheer unadulterated fun”. Usually, as a kid Vi would do everything that they had taught him and that his friends also did but at the same time he enjoyed imagining and learning more about the world around him. He would imagine the world around him as his own perspective and he would create in his mind, usually what little kids do, a happy world with no problems. As well Vi states, “Adulthood is the culmination of development, the completeness, the crystallization of a full person. This is what is subtly taught in our culture. School trains us to think in terms of ‘work’ and ‘play’. Play is something children do, permitted because you are incomplete. It’s seen as a trial stage, a way of learning before the actual business of life begins”. Basically school teaches us the important facts of life when we are still kids but when we become adult and get to the final stage of our life we get to see how the world really. As adults now we get to use all the things we learned throughout life now in an everyday basis.

    Throughout the text Vi starts talking more about the real reason why we transitioned throughout life. We don’t transition to the peak of adulthood because of what our parents and teachers taught us, but we transition for what we see by ourselves throughout our life. As Vi states, “No, what we’re talking about and thinking about here, you and I, is the way there’s always another hoop to jump through, some illusion threshold held up.  Once you cross it, you’ll be OK. You’ll be there, you’ll be accepted. And to do that, to form yourself correctly, you accept certain things as true. It’s a social reciprocity”. This means that when you propose to yourself a certain goal you will be satisfied that you accomplished it and that you are on track with your lifelong goals. But at the same time you still want more, you want to do your best to be better than everyone because that’s what your own self and culture has taught you throughout life. Vi tries to end his article by discussing how he is now as a professional worker trying to do the same things that he did when he was a child. Vi states, “Kids know the game ends eventually, because their world is one of eternal incompleteness. That’s fine, because they fill in the gaps with will and imagination… I’m a trained philosopher – undergraduate and postgraduate too, and I’ve studied Aristotle… Really fun, playing with the fundamentals of the universe, chopping and changing premises like some maniac six-year old”. As a professional, Vi still feels like a kid that is still having fun by figuring things in his own way. This doesn’t happen only by being a philosopher, it can also happen with any other professional career. For example, if you are a lawyer you still feel like a kid, just like Vi, because you are thinking about how you will solve any case and you are investigating the case like when you were a little kid investigating the world around you.

    From the text that I have read I think it connects more to our cultural myth behavior. I consider it cultural because what Vi is discussing connects more to what your parents or your biggest role models have taught you during your entire life. You either go along with what those people in your life have taught you or you decide to go along with the lessons that you have experienced throughout your life. The unseen narrative in Vi’s article is that what people are trying to show you is that once you get a professional career there’s nothing else to aim for you just managed to get to the top. But what Vi is trying to tell us in this article is that even if you are in the stage of adulthood and just became a professional there is still more to learn and find about life. In a way, adulthood is not the final stage of life but you can still use your skills that you had as a child and, instead of exploring the world around you, now you need to explore the job around you and how is going to help you out in the future and long term goals.