After listening to the Rights of Passage Wiki today in class, I continued to think about any time in my life where i was tested or required to perform a certain act in order to be "accepted" or just looked at as a different person.
Since I didnt grow up in a religious household, I was never under any pressure to believe in any certain way of living. For example a jewish family celebrates a bar mitsvah for a boy on his fifteenth birthday. This is there way of "entering manhood" and starting to change from a boy to man.
But there is one way that I can think of where I was required to perform a task as a sort of right of passage. That is back when I used to play team oriented sports. For example, in order to play on the varsity team, I would be in a stage of liminality because I would have to leave the junior varsity team and try to make the varsity team. During this time I would be be performing certain tasks and tests that demonstrated my skills and showed that I was ready to play at a higher level.
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