The moment when every precocious child (and those who only act precocious) realizes that growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be.

enjoy Akatsuki......this is you life now

Kids: "I wanna be an adult!"
Adults: "FML gimme back my childhood I wanna stay in school and avoid all these responsibilities!"

Akatsuki is the very epitome of C.S. Lewis' comments on adulthood:

To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

akatsuki just realized that growing up is not always a happy thing....

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But I never wanted to grow up, even when I was little...

So does that make me extremely mature or immature?

Depends on how mature you were when you were little.

Jesus, Akatsuki, you ain't even got university creds, they'll never let you in.

I'm sure Akatsuki would've preferred that over absorbing 170 shells.

Kryptik said:

Akatsuki is the very epitome of C.S. Lewis' comments on adulthood:

Funny, but I more remember Steinbeck in East of Eden saying something along the lines of how there are two kinds of people, those who want to be adults, and can never wait to become them, and those who want to be children all their lives, and regret growing up. (*cough* Ashigara. *cough*)

It would speak to mwzzhang's comment, as well.

Harsher in hindsight in a way.