When I was a child I thought that becoming an adult made you strong and wise beyond measure. When I was a teenager I saw that the strength and wisdom of adults was a lie and I hated them for deceiving me. In my twenties, I decided that adults are just children who've learned to pretend they’re not, and the world--with its injustices and mindless cruelties--is their broken play-thing. As I approach my thirties, I struggle with the fact that I am fast becoming one of them.