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In your opinion, what's the age limit for Trick r Treating? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by JSens1998@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My sister is 23 and still dresses up and goes out knocking doors for candy... and I find it weird but I let her do her. It got me thinking, at what age do you think someone should stop Trick r Treating at? Just curious.

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis

Good on your sister for not losing track of what makes her happy. Not doing things just because they are "childish" is the most childish trait an adult can display.

[–] IanAtCambio@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

THATS the rest of the quote!!?! Ha. Man I’ve always just heard it stop at “ childish things”. Makes more sense now

[–] Reil 14 points 1 year ago

You heard it that way because that's because that's the end of 1 Corinthians 13:11:

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

C.S. Lewis is playing off of a Bible quote and that became its own thing.

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