Blurred lines

When we think of youth language and youth culture as a subject to scholarly debate and analysis, sometimes it is just a great gain to leave academic attitudes, concepts and methods aside for a while and merely appreciate the beauty that comes with the creativity of young people – even if it is at times allegedly corrupted by the influence of adult people. But at what point do we stop to be young after all? And when are we truly grown up? The lines between youth and adulthood are blurred. How easily we forget that the elderly people of today were the youth of yesterday ...