YSAs and Never Never Land

“Of all the single adults I’ve seen over the years, the ones that ended up in successful relationships are those that broke free of manufactured “playtime” and developed genuine shared interests with people they like; both inside and outside of the church. From that, romantic relationships can form.”

My family knows that when I refer to Provo, I often call it “Never Never Land”. Outside of student life, it is a hole in the earth where many unsuspecting young adults fall in and can’t get out. The hole is adolescence and it is an alternative culture from the school-focused world of serious students. Many students leave home and travel to the land of Peter Pan where they can live as teenagers and never grow up. In an environment without a lot of successful, grown up grownups, the pixie dust of Provo is available to all to live in a cocoon that is both disconnected from reality and responsibility while fully engaged in independence. As the world turns everywhere else, Never Never Land stands still. The only thing changing is age. Social status, a little money and the right hairstyle and clothes are the only passports you need to enter this blissful state of ignorance and denial where “Provo All-Stars” and “Provo Barbies” all look alike, talk alike and never have to grow up.

This post below scratches the surface of Never Never Land (though the reference is in Salt Lake) and begs the question, “how can the church help avoid so many good, new adults developing into so many Peter Pans and Tinkerbells?”

 

The Infantilisation of Young Single Adults

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