How do we explain Stage 7? It is the time of Recycling: Adulthood. When we grow out of the teen years and enter adulthood, we complete one full cycle of development. Our personality is framed; for the remainder of our lives, we will continue to complete and refine earlier developmental tasks. The more we progress the more our perception is refined; we grow and deepen. Our developmental time clock doesn’t stop. Each repetition of the cycle will have its unique qualities, rhythm, and character; each will yield different endings. Developmental Tasks of the Adulthood includes: to master skills for work and recreation, to find mentors and to mentor, to grow in love and humor; to offer and accept intimacy, to expand creativity and honor uniqueness, to accept responsibility for ourselves to care for the next generation and the last, to find support for our growth and to support the growth of others, to expand our commitment beyond ourselves and our family to the community and the world, to balance dependence, independence, and interdependence, to deepen integrity and spirituality and to refine the arts of greeting, leaving and grieving.

Manu Melwin Joy

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