Adulting is a bitch…(forgive my language).I mean, adulting is hard. I am hating this whole adulting sham!!
I don’t get a reward when my room is clean. I don’t get enough time for naps. Absolutely everything is far much more expensive than it should be. There aren’t enough hours in a day. Relationships and friendships aren’t as easy. Did I forget making life-changing decisions is not as fun as I thought?
As a child, and a teenager too, adulting(20’s) seemed fascinating. Like a real tempting bowl of candy within my line of sight that I just couldn’t reach. But now I’ve realised, looks can be deceiving and life is an epic roller-coaster ride.
Do you ever think to yourself, “if only I’d be a kid again”.
Shouldn’t adulting be exciting and full of amazing experiences and people? Why can’t life keep getting better, not worse?
I guess I’m not the only one who thought that my childhood fears and insecurities will disappear as I mature, leaving me confident, organized and pretty much just awesome at everything and loved by everyone.
Many times in uni I’ve found myself waking up in a daze wondering who I am and if my education is even still worth it.
I guess I am an adult now, I guess I am grown up, but everything still seems so unclear. It’s so unlike the impression I had as a child that adulthood was a concrete stage that I would know I had achieved (probably by the fact that suddenly I have all the solutions, get all the perfect grades, paid all my bills and other similarly absurd ideas).
Maybe I’m slowly adulting, adapting and growing up. Maybe I’m slowly graduating from a view of life that is naive. Instead of perfection in every aspect life, all we get is a crazy mix of emotions. Happiness and sadness, fear and courage, darkness and sunshine, hatred and love, joy and misery.
All we get is an epic tale of defeat and triumph. Life offers no choice and although I am not a fan of the bad, I will take it all, as life gives.
72 replies on “Adulting…”
This is a wonderful thoughtful post!
I’ve been fascinated (as an old person :-p) by the invention of the term, “adulting”.
I too imagined that “having all the answers” time, ahead of me, as a teen. The difference was I had been asked to “try on” my big girl pants in many important areas by my parents.
From my vantage point, I see more parents and mentors endeavoring to ‘protect’ kids and teens from an imaginary line between childhood and an assumed “Big Bad World”.
It seems the current generation of parents (sorry to be so general) are doing a disservice to their kids by shielding them from some adult responsibilities. It’s a “sink or swim” tactic rather than a gradual introduction in the form of “swimming lessons”. The former can be quite terrifying!
Hope you don’t mind me offering my “two cents”. 😀
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I really appreciate your two cents ☺️
These are wise words.
Thank for your perspective and insight
Thank you for reading too
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A great blog x
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Thank you for reading 😊
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I’d like to believe that no one has life figured out down pat.
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Definitely 😊
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Girlll adulting is hard indeed… 😫😫😫
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Yeess😣😫 sometimes
Thank you for reading 😊
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I feel you 😅😣
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Glad❤️
Thank you for reading 😊
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Wow! I can completely understand it! Thankfully I’m still in teenage, but nearing adulthood😰
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Thank you for reading 😊.
Best wishes always❤️
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Who doesn’t want to be a child again 😅
The trick my friend is to : Remain childlike all our life but not be childish 😇
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Thank you for the tip😊😊
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My pleasure Kinya 😊🌹
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OMG ! It’s really hard to believe it, i’ll be 20 on 25 October !! I still feel like a child 🙃😂
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For real😊
It’s going to be okay 😊😊
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I think i’ll be a child forever though ! LOL ! 😅
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You probably won’t know when but some days you’ll wake up feeling super grown and on other days you’ll feel like a child😁😁
It’s life😁
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Yeah ! Maybe 🤔😅
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Thank you for reading 😊
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Welcome to the club Eva💪🏼
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Welcome to the club Evelyn💪🏼
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Thanks 🤗
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
STILL GROWING…UP!
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Thank you sharing this 😊😊❤️❤️
I really appreciate it
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IT’S A GOOD POST-!
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Thank you 🤗
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YOU ARE WELCOME!
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Adulting can seriously be the worst sometimes but there is quite a few things that are good though!
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Yeah❤️❤️
Thank you ❤️
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My pleasure!
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Do you ever think to yourself, “if only I’d be a kid again”.
All the time😂😂!
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All the time😂😂if only!!!
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Ah, the epic scam that is adulthood. To think we all wanted to be adults so bad when we were kids. Now, I’d just like to unsubscribe from this lifetime plan. 😭
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If only it was possible.. All we can do now is accept and make the best of it🌝
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True that!
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And to think we were eagerly waiting for it..,” when I grow up”😅
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Now I don’t want to grow up anympre😭😂😂😂
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*we all have to accept….irrizzzwhaririiiz
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I hate how adulting is restricting me from binge watching like I used to😭😖
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Or napping😂
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😂😂😂😂we all to accept…irrrisswarriiriizzz
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Do we have a choice? 😂
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Naaah
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😍😍😍love this post..exactly how I feel about adulting!
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I know😭😊😊
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😅😅😅no reward for a clean room
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None 😂😂
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Adulting is enjoyable once you start finding joy in the little things; like the soap you are currently watching, the plate of chips you are abt to have or even the dress you’re abt to wear. The little things make life so much fun 😊
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True…😊😊
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We are not taught what life is really like once we’re out on our own. It sucks sometimes, but it molds our character. Thank you for following my blog. 🙂
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Thank you😊
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We should have been told what the whole package looks like so we decide if we Want to skip adulting
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I know right😭😂
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But as children we don’t listen to this 😇 I keep telling all this to my granddaughter and she laughs it off 😅
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She better listen to you 😊
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Nobody listens to Nobody 😅
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😂😂😂
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I don’t think I would have taken it seriously if I had been told as a child
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Nobody listens to nobody😂😂
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We all want to have our own experiences. We hope it will be different for us
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Every time 😂😂
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Every time 😂😂little do we know
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Totally agree
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True, wish growth had a pause button😂
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It’d be easier😂
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I can totally relate to this 😭😭wish I could be 10 years old again.
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Ikr😭😭
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We’re all here. I just wanna be 12 again, going through puberty and enjoying being a senior in primary school😂😂😂simple things.
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Me too😭😭
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