Peer pressure is still a thing.
But now, instead of cigarettes, weed and beer, it’s marriage, careers and homeownership.
2.How incompetent everybody is.
Jonny Kennaugh
When I was a child adults always had the answer.
Basically, adults knew what they were doing everything was under control.
Now Im an adult, everything is a shit show.
Im the person who allegedly knows what they are doing, half the time Im just making stuff up.
EVERYONE is doing this.
Our whole society is held together by well meaning people making guesses, and duct tape.
3.Theres always something you have to do.
Like even when relaxing theres things you really should be doing.
4.Having all my close friends slowly drift apart.
The depressing monotony of working the same job day after day.
7.Not having other adult friends, or even potential adult friends close at hand.
When youre a kid, friends, or even potential friends, are almost always close.
Close by in the same class.
Close by at the same stop.
Close by at the same swim meet.
When youre an adult, youre more closed off.
By the pre-school schedule.
You lose friends, family, time.
Losing your sense of self, losing sight of what you thought your life would be.
10.Your parents getting noticeably older each time you see them.
May not happen to every one but this is part of being an adult.
You deal with it, you learn from it and you move on.
14.Peer pressure is still a thing.
But now, instead of cigarettes, weed and beer, its marriage, careers and homeownership.
15.How hard it is to get fit, and how easy it is to gain weight.
16.Feeling like Im running out of time.
As a teen, one summer break from school was the longest time in the world.
All that mattered was this sunrise today, this crush on someone I have right now.
The ability to live in the present to the fullest.
What do I study?
Where do I wanna work?
I DONT KNOW HELP ME CHOOSE!!!
I either make time for it now or it never happens.
Companies, utilities, government, doctors.
But if you go into your job and act that way, they fire your ass.
19.The way your body seriously begins to break down.
Every morning, its something new.
and being exhausted all the time.
I get about 5-6 hours now, just odd.
No reason other than time to get my wits about me.
I had been to plenty of funerals in childhood.
Ill never be prepared.
22.Looking back at the past, unable to relive the great moments and unable to change the bad ones.
23.Realizing my decisions, actions, and opinions directly impact this small person I made.
24.Interviewing for jobs that I dont really want.
I feel scared to be honest.
I feel scared to be the leader.
I always looked up to my parents and trusted them with all their decisions.
26.The endless, endless, ENDLESS expenses.
Surprise expenses, too.
28.Initially I wasnt prepared for being the driver in a world full of shitty drivers.
Id always been the passenger.
Some form of metaphor there, I think.
Now Im disappointed by nearly everything.
30.Sleeping wrong is a thing now.
Didnt see that one coming.
31.The fact that very few people actually end up doing what they like for a living.
I dont know how to deal with this pattern.
No one really pushes you to do the right thing its ridiculously daunting.
The chore that is literally never finished.
35.How tired I would be.
36.Having to figure out how to bolster yourself, inspire yourself and reward yourself.
It just sucks that I dont know more people who react the same way.
37.Very few people care about you as much as you think they do.
Its a catch 22 though.
On the bright side, you learn to love Mum and Dad even more when you land kids.
39.Having to book my own dentist appointments and tell them what I need done.
Have yet to do that, since now I also have to pay for them myself?
Not enough money to keep it properly maintained, not enough time to worry about maintaining it.
41.Taxes, insurance, saving for retirement, etc.
The US education system does not prepare children and teens for the fine details of being an adult.
42.Not being able to go to bed at 3 in the morning and remain healthy/employed.
43.Waking up super early… everyday.
44.Your path to independence is filled with a loss of people.
There are people you sincerely care about that will just disappear because of distance and growth in different directions.
People my age though, it just sometimes feels like whatever connection we had became meaningless overnight.
45.Marrying and having kids with the wrong person can ruin your life.
46.That I needed to learn to think a few years ahead all the time.
Which almost ALWAYS turns out to be true.
We had to do this exercise where we imagined a future version of ourselves in excruciating detail.
What was the room like where we woke up.
Who was with us, if anyone.
What clothes did we put on.
Did we go to a job?
How did we get there?
What did we do there?
It was an exercise in values, really.
You will have to start worrying about things like your blood pressure and your fiber intake.
48.Not having someone to help you when youre sick really sucks.
The first time I got an ear infection so bad that it gave me vertigo.
I had to clean it up first, because there was nobody there to clean it up for me.
Growing up adults always admonish you to not talk about poop.
Then you have two kids and a dog and poop comes up all the time.
50.Realizing that time does in fact fly by.
