Alexander Proud thinks all men are essentially adult children.
“I realised” says Alex Proud “at some point in my 30s or maybe early 40s, (or perhaps it was yesterday) that as a man, there wasn’t really ever going to be a day when I woke up and think “ahhh, now I am an adult”. Men are, at heart, all 14-yearold boys. We may own more stuff, have more life experience, have adult sized responsibilities, or adult shaped assets (or adult sized debts, or pathetically adult shaped mid life crises) but we are in fact all children even if we are dressed up in suits.” This realisation wasn’t a sad moment for Alex Proud. He acknowledges that it may in fact be the key to happiness as it made him recognise that the little things that really make him happy now, are more or less the same things that made him happy when he was a young teenager.