With great immaturity comes great power. This is the way (道) of the Chuu-ni-byou 中二病 warrior.

Chuu-ni-byou

Let us engage in some self-deprecation. Surely, most of us have at least felt this way before?

Chuunibyou (中二病; Chūnibyō) is a derogative colloquial term in the Japanese language used to describe a person who manifests delusional behavior, particularly thinking that one has special powers that no other person has. Originally a term used to pertain to children in the second year of middle school who act like adults, the term eventually evolved into a term generally used to describe delusional behavior in general.

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Maybe you realized you knew something that a parent or teacher didn't know. Maybe you were better at something than all of your peers. Maybe you truly believed you had some sort of super-natural powers.

While Chuunibyou may be used as an insult, we can embrace this term.

With some imagination, your daily activities become heroic

Being a student, a lowly corporate wage slave, or otherwise falling into line to conform to societal norms may be not always be the most fun thing in the world. Inject some immature thinking, however, and the every day routine can become lots of fun.

Desk jobs

Knowing how to work a bunch of little programs is like knowing how to cast a bunch of spells. Chaining them together to create solutions, now that's wizardry! Composing emails is basically mind control ("delegation").

Magical items (computers) become more powerful in the hands of skilled users. Understanding that when you skillfully operate a computer, you are translating keystrokes (little finger movements) into BIG ACTIONS in the real world.

Practicing a musical instrument

Let's look at another activity: playing musical instruments. To play a musical instrument well you need to train a lot of fine motor control. Plucking strings? Why that's basically archery.

NEETing x Quarantine

If you wanna be with others outside having fun but can't, you may be experiencing loneliness. However, if you willfully choose this path, you may be persuing solitude. Like a wise sage, a lone wolf rogue, a hero on a journey...

Adventure awaits

Overcome by a sense of ennui?

While you might not be literally slaying dragons out there, channeling a little bit of immaturity, you can view your own live as an epic adventure.

The details of what it means to manifest chuunibyou are left as an exercise to the reader.