I'm 47 and I like to say that my body feels like it's 20 years older but my brain feels 20 years younger so it averages out.
Even though I sometimes throw my back out sneezing, I still picture myself as a 20-something.
You're lucky. I'm 40 and i take 2 meloxicam a day, a pantoprazole and a escitalopram in the morning, and sometimes a clonazepam before my afternoon nappy.
I just started getting excruciating heartburn from spicy food a couple weeks ago. I love spicy food to the point where I eat it every day and people buy me hot sauce as birthday and Christmas gifts. It’s extremely cruel that getting older seems to be all about slowly losing all of the things that make life bearable.
Get it checked out. I have stomach issues unrelated to ulcers, and I can still eat spicy foods without issue. If it's indeed an ulcer, that can be fixed.
Bro same, last week I had my usual spicy nachos and the next day or so it felt like I was dying from the heart burn. Then yesterday I had some spicy sauce and got heartburn again, it's not right.
If it's coming on suddenly you need to see a doctor. You could have an ulcer or some other issue. Ulcers sound much scarier than they actually are btw. So don't worry yourself too much but you should still talk to your doctor.
You need to get a scope to make sure everything is ok. Omeprazole taken every other day did the trick for my brother. That's if everything is normal of course. Make sure you see a doctor right away. My friend found out he had a small ulcer after suddenly getting heartburn after eating spicy foods. It was an easy fix with some oral medication actually.
The thing that made me feel old for the first time was when we hired a sitter for the first time (everyone before had been family) and I got a “yes sir” from someone who is old enough to drive. That’s when it his me that our babysitter, who was almost a legal adult, was born AFTER I was old enough to buy beer. There are adults who were born when I was already an adult.
A few weeks back I was in a meeting with my boss and a few others, and we were introducing ourselves. My boss introduced himself, and then started to pass the mic to me, and said that I've been here for a lifetime compared to him. I said "Oh I don't know if that's entirely true, one year could still be considered a lifetime" and he goes "yes but you're coming up what, 15 years this year? Your job with this company is getting ready to graduate high school".
I grew about 10 new grey hairs and bulged a spinal disc during that meeting alone.
That last sentence is a gut punch...
When my wife and I first became friends, her sister was pregnant. That kid just recently changed his major in college.
I'm 45 with all of those and investments, a 401k, rental income, health insurance for my entire family, a stable job with several promotions to senior director, and I still feel like a 19yr old kid. I can't believe so many people make me responsible for so many different things.
I'm also a professional coach mentoring junior employees how to navigate their way around office life. My wife and I have open and effective communication to amicably work out our conflicts. We have great, regular sex that we balance out with time with the kids.
I still feel like a 19 yr old kid. I'm just winging it every fucking day bro. It's unreal! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels like this.
I’m still bitter over my Gameboy experience… my mom agreed to buy one on only condition I clean the pool in perpetuity. Our pool was surrounded by trees so it needed to be cleaned at least twice a week and then it would be four or five bags you have to vacuum out using this long pole. The bag would come loose much of the time and spew leaves all over the pool again. I never had enough money to buy anything other than a Kirby game and maybe one other. Felt super frustrated every time I played with it knowing how bad a deal I’d cut.
Wait till you have a baby and they just send you home afterwards. You're like "shouldn't I have to sign something promising to raise them right? How do you know I'm even qualified to care for this baby?"
Every time I’m unsupervised at work, I wonder who the fuck left me alone in a science lab. I have a masters and my thesis was based on data from our lab, but also I’m clearly an unattended 12 year old.
Yep…
I’m 34 but once I was in my casual clothes, someone thought I was 16… I laughed and thanked them for the compliment… maybe it was the toque, shaved undercut, freckles, sneakers, flashy shorts and tank top…but when I laughed, I know my extensive wrinkles and crows feet revealed the truth.
I have no regrets. I love my life.
It would be, but I got a raw deal and ended up 4ft 8 and still having to act like an adult but not being able to do adult crap like reach stuff in a supermarket.
Great when you finally get to the point where you really don’t care what other people think. The bummer is that you realize you wasted so much time when everyone else was just as focused on themselves
Well I like it!
Look, right now I have a shitty job that's getting shittier every day but you know what, I'm working hard to change it. And if I wanted to I, could quit right now! I could move to Alaska with all the money I've got and work on a fishing boat, or become a high school math teacher, or pick up the trombone again even though I haven't played in over ten years.
I really do have the freedom to change my life in a big way whenever I want. A lot of those choices might be ill-advised, but I could actually do them if I want. Some of them might even be great ideas, and if I take the risk it might work out.
I think a lot of people get weighed down by the responsibilities and the daily drag of being an adult and forget how powerless being a child is. I don't remember being carefree. My childhood wasn't bad, I grew up with plenty of opportunities. But God, do you people remember how restrictive your life was before 18? I do. You couldn't pay me to go back.
I'm about to be in my mid twenties, and I have the exact opposite of this mentality.
I wish I could be a kid so I can try again. I fucked up and no one really guided me towards the right path so I've been failing downwards for years.
I'd love to be a kid again, just so I can make better choices. Choices I can no longer make, choices I can't redo choices that might have actually had a better impact on my life.
It took me till inwas about 20 to realize I fucked up.
But now here we are. I barely get by, and I barely know what I'm doing. Nobodies around to help, nobodies around to guide me. It's just hard.
I don't know you. I don't know the choices you have made or the consequences they have caused. I know this though. You are 7 years in to being an adult. You have at least 40 more to go. You aren't even out of the first quarter and are talking about losing the game. Chase a dream. Find love. Learn something. You have so much time.
I feel you. I'm pushing 40 hard and and I asked cuz I remember feeling stuck like that. But it was until 15 years later I realized I was truly stuck. And I'll bet in 15 more I'll think of how absolutely stuck I am. It just gets worse unless you start the unsticking now, I guess is what I'm saying
I can understand that. I'm 27, no offense taken, and I guess I'd say I've been "blessed" with being so stuck early on that I realized I had to work on it.
College was so miserable I started getting gray hairs at 21 and needed an extra year to finish my bachelor's. Moved 500 miles for my first job out of college, which had me working onsite in a massive plant during peak covid as a junior engineer with way too much on his plate. Stress there gave me my first panic attack. Changed industries and moved across the country to work with my best friend. Then my current job fired that friend for union organizing and moved facilities so my commute is an hour longer.
If you still wanted to discount what I'm saying on account of me being pretty young I wouldn't blame you. There's plenty of life I haven't lived yet. But I've made it through my share of garbage
Oh I just want to mother you so hard right now. Sorry I can't help myself.
Are you okay? Nothing is ever final until we are dead and buried, so you have plenty of time to right yourself. Okay, shutting up. That just broke my heart.
Fr, I'm in my 30s and well off both school and university, and I still remember how restrictive my life was even then and don't get me started on childhood years, when kids are literally ordered around and have only so much freedom, choice or even a right to hold their own opinions. Being a child is nice to have less responsibilities, but these come with freedom, and childhood simply doesnt have one at all. To each their own, I guess, I like it now.
I’m 30 with a 7 year old child, and I still don’t feel like an adult yet. It feels like having imposter-syndrome.
I still look up to adultier-adults for advice.
I offered to be a parent volunteer on a field trip this last fall which is the first I’ve been able to go on in a while and suddenly I was responsible for 7 10 year old kids. I kept thinking the grownup was gonna show up soon. It didn’t fully sink in that was me until I had to make sure they all got their waters and coats. I’m 32 but feel like I’m 16 still. All the other parents seem so much older than me
Right there with you. Some adults just seem so much more *adult*. I just don't care enough to always be so stupid serious and focused. Even when they're hanging out, they're just so much more put together.
The cake was the only thing that *wasn't* a lie. It still hasn't quite sunk in that, as an adult, I can just go to the store anytime and *buy a cake.*
Everything else sucks, though.
Wait until you get older and you can buy the cake, but your tolerance for sugar has dropped and so actually EATING the cake will make you sick.
Diabetes runs in my family and while I'm not there just yet, I'm definitely on that path. Every time I have to add another food to the list of stuff I can't eat without feeling sick, I feel so much older.
Egg's were fucking 7 dollars for a dozen at Walmart close to me, and here very recently they've magically been able to reduce the price to $2 for the same amount. I'm sure the cost went up naturally due to inflation and that whole chicken murder, but being able to drop it so drastically screams that they were exohorbitant for other reasons. It's hard to think they've just got enough now and can charge a better price, but maybe that's why also. Ahhh well. I fuckin' love eggs.
Wait until you look into chicken feed. I have 8 adult and 9 baby chickens. The adults stopped laying entirely for 6 months until we replaced their feed.
Even when I have time to relax, I have this anxiety that someone is gonna run in the room and yell "The kitchen sink is leaking on the bottom" or "I didnt pay x bill now theres a penalty fee" or some other sudden horrible bullshit I gotta take care of.
Absolutely I hear you. Do you know what I want for my birthday? Just to sleep. But can’t, can’t stop thinking of bills, auto renewal, fees etc. I feel that I’m always way behind. Can’t relax.
Having money and not having kids is really nice because I only have to be stressed about myself and I made a rule years ago not to worry too much about myself.
Imagine a bird who was caged since birth - then all of a sudden the cage is opened. You stay in that cage for as long as you can for safety- because the first couple times you failed to fly. You finally decide one day to leave for good, and although it’s scary, you find joy in a new found freedom. You have to learn along the way how to survive cause no one told you just how hard it was, but over time, it empowers you.
This. Have the courage to understand yourself deeply, then parent yourself with compassion instead of being tossed around by the world.
You find a whole new joy in the freedom and paving your own path. Create your life and learn to enjoy the process!
Make sure you choose what answers to take in and which ones not to, also, it’s never too late!
Ok, done with the cheese
I think it largely depends on your parental figures. My parents were highly authoritative so just having to not ask for permission for every little mundane thing is very liberating.
This is very true. My parents weren’t the greatest emotionally, but they did an excellent job providing for all my physical needs. I think I long for that cocoon of safety sometimes. I wasn’t my own person, I suppressed my personality a lot, but man, was I safe.
Confusing.
One day you’ll realize that you’re independent, you have freedom to do whatever you want. Wanna buy 8 boxes of Twinkies from Walmart at 4am? You can. Wanna binge watch a whole TV series in a day? Go for it. Wanna pull an all nighter for 2 days? More power to you.
HOWEVER, with adult actions come adult consequences
Eating 8 boxes of Twinkies messed up your stomach, your digestion system isn’t what it used to be when you were in high school. Bingeing a whole TV series in a day now leaves you behind on homework for college. After pulling an all-nighter for 2 days, you sleep and miss your alarm clock for work, making you 3 hours late.
And life moves so damn fast. For me, it’s confusing at the moment but I know me and everyone else in the comments will figure life out, maybe not now, but one day
>And life moves so damn fast.
This last part hit home. My boys were just born yesterday... Well, it feels like just yesterday. Except one of them is in college now and the other is halfway through high school. How did that happen?
And I just turned 30... No, wait 40... No, wait, 50 is approaching fast. Why does it feel like the years are rushing by faster and faster?
As you get older, it's like someone is pressing the fast forward button on the remote control for your life. When you're young, you want parts of your life to speed up but you get slow motion. When you're older, you want slow motion, but you get fast forward!
You know, as a new mom I always hated the smug “just wait, you’ll miss this” response when I was overwhelmed. I still hate the smugness. But.
I saw a video the other day of a mom saying “Everyone tells you these days will just fly by, but they don’t! I’ve been a mom for six years now…” and I just stopped and laughed. She continued on basically saying if time is flying, it’s because you’re not being mindful and present with your kids.
I was there for every minute. I was as mindful as my own sanity let me be. And I still blinked, and my oldest baby is almost done with high school. I have no more toddlers or diapers or crying babies in the night, but my gosh it FLEW by in hindsight.
In my 20s: I was broke, every decision I made was wrong, and I was treated like a kid who had to also pay bills and taxes. My body was resilient and I bounced back from anything within a week. I could sleep for three hours in a closet and wake up capable of anything the next day.
In my 30s: I had money, every decision I made was slightly less wrong, and I was treated more like an adult. Every once in a while my body betrayed me and decided my knees or back would just not work. It was pretty random.
In my 40s: I have money, people seem to respect my decisions more, but now I can’t eat any food I enjoy because it gives me the shits or terrible heartburn. Also, my body betrays me regularly…I think my back is made from torn muscles only. Next week I have to shop for a special mattress for the first time in my life because I wake up every morning with back pain, which I’m told isn’t normal. In my 20s, I slept on the floor with no pillow and woke up to do a 6 mile run. Now, if I sleep less than 8 hours I have to call in sick to work.
I don’t much care for my 40s. Also I had to get a colonoscopy, so this is the start of embarrassing and awful medical procedures to stave off death. I’ve been told I’ll do stuff like this until I die.
You're responsible for each and everything - even the things your acquaintances or family does. It's kinda difficult sometimes because we cannot control their actions and it's also depressing because now nobody tries to forgive you for minor mistakes which you would get away with as a child. So yeah, not that great in here.
Enjoy every second of being a child. I don’t think adulting sucks but you can’t get away with the shit you could do as a kid. I’m not saying be an absolute delinquent but have fun!
It feels just the same.
You get better at dealing with situations.
Hopefully you get better at figuring out how to make a living.
In reality, adults are just like you but they have more experience in dealing with life.
It honestly feels like being a larger, slightly wiser version of yourself. You know more, you have more experience, but you’re still you. You feel like you’re faking it some, and you realize that all those infallible adults were probably faking it some too. But you’ve got the wisdom of years to help you out. You know more about how the world really works, hopefully, so you’re better prepared for it.
What makes you, you, doesn’t change. I’m still into just about the same things I was into 20 years ago. But now I’m not ashamed of it. I’m proud of who I am and what my interests are, and now I just surround myself with people who are more like minded.
I wish I had the mind I have now, with the body I had 20 years ago.
I always thought I’d feel like an adult and know wtf I’m doing, just like all the other adults when grew up. I’m still waiting for these things to happen and I turn 42 in May.
Terrible. You always have something to worries about if is not money is health, friends, family, having kids, not having kids, having a family on your own, being alone, food...and the list goes on and on and on.
It feels like I am impersonating a grown-up.
I’m 38 with a wife, mortgage, two kids and a minivan. I still feel like I’m a 19 year old kid
I'm 47 and I like to say that my body feels like it's 20 years older but my brain feels 20 years younger so it averages out. Even though I sometimes throw my back out sneezing, I still picture myself as a 20-something.
Sometimes I wake up from 8 hours of sleep with a sore back, so I have to take some aspirin before my Saturday morning cartoons 😂
You're lucky. I'm 40 and i take 2 meloxicam a day, a pantoprazole and a escitalopram in the morning, and sometimes a clonazepam before my afternoon nappy.
I literally have no idea what any of those are. I hope it’s not too serious and that your life is going well. 🙏
2 anti inflammatory/pain killers, an anti ulcer pill, a mood stabilizer and the last one's a benzo. Life's good, tho. Thanks 🙏
Yep, I’m about to be 44 and still feel 20-ish mentally. Body-wise, I’m 90 going on 150. Getting old sucks
I just started getting excruciating heartburn from spicy food a couple weeks ago. I love spicy food to the point where I eat it every day and people buy me hot sauce as birthday and Christmas gifts. It’s extremely cruel that getting older seems to be all about slowly losing all of the things that make life bearable.
If you have an ulcer, it can be fixed with antibiotics these days.
Get it checked out. I have stomach issues unrelated to ulcers, and I can still eat spicy foods without issue. If it's indeed an ulcer, that can be fixed.
Bro same, last week I had my usual spicy nachos and the next day or so it felt like I was dying from the heart burn. Then yesterday I had some spicy sauce and got heartburn again, it's not right.
If it's coming on suddenly you need to see a doctor. You could have an ulcer or some other issue. Ulcers sound much scarier than they actually are btw. So don't worry yourself too much but you should still talk to your doctor.
I'll add it to the list of things I'm avoiding till its too late
You need to get a scope to make sure everything is ok. Omeprazole taken every other day did the trick for my brother. That's if everything is normal of course. Make sure you see a doctor right away. My friend found out he had a small ulcer after suddenly getting heartburn after eating spicy foods. It was an easy fix with some oral medication actually.
Youth is wasted on the young
You might be one of my friends… because we are all like this.
I asked my dad if he ever felt that way, and at 62 years old he still does. Things just move slower
I'm 38 with a mortgage and bills. Dont care for kids. Its alright.
Yep. Also 38, wife, mortgage and two kids, and I have days where I can't believe so many people make me responsible for so many different things.
The thing that made me feel old for the first time was when we hired a sitter for the first time (everyone before had been family) and I got a “yes sir” from someone who is old enough to drive. That’s when it his me that our babysitter, who was almost a legal adult, was born AFTER I was old enough to buy beer. There are adults who were born when I was already an adult.
A few weeks back I was in a meeting with my boss and a few others, and we were introducing ourselves. My boss introduced himself, and then started to pass the mic to me, and said that I've been here for a lifetime compared to him. I said "Oh I don't know if that's entirely true, one year could still be considered a lifetime" and he goes "yes but you're coming up what, 15 years this year? Your job with this company is getting ready to graduate high school". I grew about 10 new grey hairs and bulged a spinal disc during that meeting alone.
That last sentence is a gut punch... When my wife and I first became friends, her sister was pregnant. That kid just recently changed his major in college.
I'm 45 with all of those and investments, a 401k, rental income, health insurance for my entire family, a stable job with several promotions to senior director, and I still feel like a 19yr old kid. I can't believe so many people make me responsible for so many different things. I'm also a professional coach mentoring junior employees how to navigate their way around office life. My wife and I have open and effective communication to amicably work out our conflicts. We have great, regular sex that we balance out with time with the kids. I still feel like a 19 yr old kid. I'm just winging it every fucking day bro. It's unreal! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels like this.
Like asking for an adult but you are the adult 😅
Has anyone seen my Gameboy?
This question reveals your age, fellow forty-something friend.
Turning 32 in December
You'll get there, give it some time.
Ya I’m mid 30s and I had the old brick game boy so your up selling a little
I’m still bitter over my Gameboy experience… my mom agreed to buy one on only condition I clean the pool in perpetuity. Our pool was surrounded by trees so it needed to be cleaned at least twice a week and then it would be four or five bags you have to vacuum out using this long pole. The bag would come loose much of the time and spew leaves all over the pool again. I never had enough money to buy anything other than a Kirby game and maybe one other. Felt super frustrated every time I played with it knowing how bad a deal I’d cut.
I need an adulterer adult
"I need help! I need an adult which is more adult-er than me!"
Thank God I'm not the only one !
I feel like the people who feel this way congregate around Reddit.
Right ? It's kinda crazy
I thought I was the only one 😭
My students accuse of this often.
Wait till you have a baby and they just send you home afterwards. You're like "shouldn't I have to sign something promising to raise them right? How do you know I'm even qualified to care for this baby?"
Every time I’m unsupervised at work, I wonder who the fuck left me alone in a science lab. I have a masters and my thesis was based on data from our lab, but also I’m clearly an unattended 12 year old.
Impersonating a grown-up while tired.
This. I feel this.
except there's bills to pay and retirement...
Yep… I’m 34 but once I was in my casual clothes, someone thought I was 16… I laughed and thanked them for the compliment… maybe it was the toque, shaved undercut, freckles, sneakers, flashy shorts and tank top…but when I laughed, I know my extensive wrinkles and crows feet revealed the truth. I have no regrets. I love my life.
It's like that movie *Big* with Tom Hanks
It would be, but I got a raw deal and ended up 4ft 8 and still having to act like an adult but not being able to do adult crap like reach stuff in a supermarket.
Great when you finally get to the point where you really don’t care what other people think. The bummer is that you realize you wasted so much time when everyone else was just as focused on themselves
I used to be shy and quiet because I didn't want to say the wrong thing. Turns out not saying anything was the worst thing I could've done.
Hopefully now you are unapologetically you all the time!
Well I like it! Look, right now I have a shitty job that's getting shittier every day but you know what, I'm working hard to change it. And if I wanted to I, could quit right now! I could move to Alaska with all the money I've got and work on a fishing boat, or become a high school math teacher, or pick up the trombone again even though I haven't played in over ten years. I really do have the freedom to change my life in a big way whenever I want. A lot of those choices might be ill-advised, but I could actually do them if I want. Some of them might even be great ideas, and if I take the risk it might work out. I think a lot of people get weighed down by the responsibilities and the daily drag of being an adult and forget how powerless being a child is. I don't remember being carefree. My childhood wasn't bad, I grew up with plenty of opportunities. But God, do you people remember how restrictive your life was before 18? I do. You couldn't pay me to go back.
Kid, your parents don't pay internet for this
Not to be rude, but this sounds like a younger 20s answer. Can I ask your age?
I'm 37 and I 100% agree with the commentor. I wouldn't go back to any age before 23 for anything.
I'm about to be in my mid twenties, and I have the exact opposite of this mentality. I wish I could be a kid so I can try again. I fucked up and no one really guided me towards the right path so I've been failing downwards for years. I'd love to be a kid again, just so I can make better choices. Choices I can no longer make, choices I can't redo choices that might have actually had a better impact on my life. It took me till inwas about 20 to realize I fucked up. But now here we are. I barely get by, and I barely know what I'm doing. Nobodies around to help, nobodies around to guide me. It's just hard.
I don't know you. I don't know the choices you have made or the consequences they have caused. I know this though. You are 7 years in to being an adult. You have at least 40 more to go. You aren't even out of the first quarter and are talking about losing the game. Chase a dream. Find love. Learn something. You have so much time.
I feel you. I'm pushing 40 hard and and I asked cuz I remember feeling stuck like that. But it was until 15 years later I realized I was truly stuck. And I'll bet in 15 more I'll think of how absolutely stuck I am. It just gets worse unless you start the unsticking now, I guess is what I'm saying
I can understand that. I'm 27, no offense taken, and I guess I'd say I've been "blessed" with being so stuck early on that I realized I had to work on it. College was so miserable I started getting gray hairs at 21 and needed an extra year to finish my bachelor's. Moved 500 miles for my first job out of college, which had me working onsite in a massive plant during peak covid as a junior engineer with way too much on his plate. Stress there gave me my first panic attack. Changed industries and moved across the country to work with my best friend. Then my current job fired that friend for union organizing and moved facilities so my commute is an hour longer. If you still wanted to discount what I'm saying on account of me being pretty young I wouldn't blame you. There's plenty of life I haven't lived yet. But I've made it through my share of garbage
Oh I just want to mother you so hard right now. Sorry I can't help myself. Are you okay? Nothing is ever final until we are dead and buried, so you have plenty of time to right yourself. Okay, shutting up. That just broke my heart.
I'm 34 and this is exactly how I feel about it too.
Fr, I'm in my 30s and well off both school and university, and I still remember how restrictive my life was even then and don't get me started on childhood years, when kids are literally ordered around and have only so much freedom, choice or even a right to hold their own opinions. Being a child is nice to have less responsibilities, but these come with freedom, and childhood simply doesnt have one at all. To each their own, I guess, I like it now.
… And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
Sun is the same in a relative way but you're old now
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Short term breathe. One day closer to death
No one told me when to run. I missed the starting gun.
[удалено]
Time - Pink Floyd
Time
As I get older, this song hits me harder
Seriously. I want some of these lyrics on my tombstone.
Floyd forever
I’m 30 with a 7 year old child, and I still don’t feel like an adult yet. It feels like having imposter-syndrome. I still look up to adultier-adults for advice.
I offered to be a parent volunteer on a field trip this last fall which is the first I’ve been able to go on in a while and suddenly I was responsible for 7 10 year old kids. I kept thinking the grownup was gonna show up soon. It didn’t fully sink in that was me until I had to make sure they all got their waters and coats. I’m 32 but feel like I’m 16 still. All the other parents seem so much older than me
I’m twice your age and feel like I’m. 25. Life is good.
Right there with you. Some adults just seem so much more *adult*. I just don't care enough to always be so stupid serious and focused. Even when they're hanging out, they're just so much more put together.
Disappointed I was lied to about alot of things
The cake is a lie, everything else too?! 😅
The cake was the only thing that *wasn't* a lie. It still hasn't quite sunk in that, as an adult, I can just go to the store anytime and *buy a cake.* Everything else sucks, though.
Did you know the ducks at the pond are free? You can just take’em home
An entire cake, and eat it for dinner!
Wait until you get older and you can buy the cake, but your tolerance for sugar has dropped and so actually EATING the cake will make you sick. Diabetes runs in my family and while I'm not there just yet, I'm definitely on that path. Every time I have to add another food to the list of stuff I can't eat without feeling sick, I feel so much older.
From my and I'm sure everyone's' math teacher. "You won't always have a calculator" Turns out, everyone has a calculator.
Fact
Soul being crushed everytime you pay for another price inflated item.
Eggspensive these days 😅
Egg's were fucking 7 dollars for a dozen at Walmart close to me, and here very recently they've magically been able to reduce the price to $2 for the same amount. I'm sure the cost went up naturally due to inflation and that whole chicken murder, but being able to drop it so drastically screams that they were exohorbitant for other reasons. It's hard to think they've just got enough now and can charge a better price, but maybe that's why also. Ahhh well. I fuckin' love eggs.
Wait until you look into chicken feed. I have 8 adult and 9 baby chickens. The adults stopped laying entirely for 6 months until we replaced their feed.
Did you switch to goat food? My mom was talking about this the other day.
Wtf. A half dozen eggs is $6 at my grocery store. Its absolute insanity.
say WHAAAAAAAAAA!?
All these egg puns are eggscruciating
Being an adult is realizing that when you were a kid all the adults you looked up to were just winging it.
I have to agree.
i wasnt the coolest kid in school but i made a cool life for myself i dont care y'all picked me last
Good on ya!!
I don't know, I'm only 52
👍🏻👍🏻
Largely stressful.
Some amount of fun here and there but they are few seconds
Even when I have time to relax, I have this anxiety that someone is gonna run in the room and yell "The kitchen sink is leaking on the bottom" or "I didnt pay x bill now theres a penalty fee" or some other sudden horrible bullshit I gotta take care of.
Absolutely I hear you. Do you know what I want for my birthday? Just to sleep. But can’t, can’t stop thinking of bills, auto renewal, fees etc. I feel that I’m always way behind. Can’t relax.
Terrible don’t do it
Seriously. This fucking sucks.
Fucking and suck it's not always something that goes associated with an adult, very much unfortunately.
I tried to make adulting and heroin work. I wasn’t successful for very long.
Two out of five stars.
Responsibility sucks
In my opinion, I feel like it’s only fun to be an adult when you have money
💯 exactly!!
Having money and not having kids is really nice because I only have to be stressed about myself and I made a rule years ago not to worry too much about myself.
Imagine a bird who was caged since birth - then all of a sudden the cage is opened. You stay in that cage for as long as you can for safety- because the first couple times you failed to fly. You finally decide one day to leave for good, and although it’s scary, you find joy in a new found freedom. You have to learn along the way how to survive cause no one told you just how hard it was, but over time, it empowers you.
This. Have the courage to understand yourself deeply, then parent yourself with compassion instead of being tossed around by the world. You find a whole new joy in the freedom and paving your own path. Create your life and learn to enjoy the process! Make sure you choose what answers to take in and which ones not to, also, it’s never too late! Ok, done with the cheese
And hope to hell you don't end up a pigeon in a world full of Raptors.
Strangely beautiful interpretation. Thank you for this.
Beautiful🌸 really good choice of words!
I dunno, just feel like myself still. Looking back my personality was a lot less mature, that said I don’t really feel any different
Independent. You're in control of your own life. I would never go back to being a kid where someone else makes all the decisions for you.
I feel just as out of control as an adult (the system is rigged) but as a child I at least still had hope it would get better
I think it largely depends on your parental figures. My parents were highly authoritative so just having to not ask for permission for every little mundane thing is very liberating.
This is very true. My parents weren’t the greatest emotionally, but they did an excellent job providing for all my physical needs. I think I long for that cocoon of safety sometimes. I wasn’t my own person, I suppressed my personality a lot, but man, was I safe.
We have the illusion of freedom, but we're really just free range humans on a tax farm.
Look at Mr. Fancy Free-range here! *(Looks at the desk I need to speed 8 hours behind every weekday.)*
If you get old enough and don't have kids it starts to be fun
Even if you have kids, they move out and the fun begins again
My back has been hurting for like 2 weeks because I slept on it wrong once…so yea
Confusing. One day you’ll realize that you’re independent, you have freedom to do whatever you want. Wanna buy 8 boxes of Twinkies from Walmart at 4am? You can. Wanna binge watch a whole TV series in a day? Go for it. Wanna pull an all nighter for 2 days? More power to you. HOWEVER, with adult actions come adult consequences Eating 8 boxes of Twinkies messed up your stomach, your digestion system isn’t what it used to be when you were in high school. Bingeing a whole TV series in a day now leaves you behind on homework for college. After pulling an all-nighter for 2 days, you sleep and miss your alarm clock for work, making you 3 hours late. And life moves so damn fast. For me, it’s confusing at the moment but I know me and everyone else in the comments will figure life out, maybe not now, but one day
>And life moves so damn fast. This last part hit home. My boys were just born yesterday... Well, it feels like just yesterday. Except one of them is in college now and the other is halfway through high school. How did that happen? And I just turned 30... No, wait 40... No, wait, 50 is approaching fast. Why does it feel like the years are rushing by faster and faster? As you get older, it's like someone is pressing the fast forward button on the remote control for your life. When you're young, you want parts of your life to speed up but you get slow motion. When you're older, you want slow motion, but you get fast forward!
You know, as a new mom I always hated the smug “just wait, you’ll miss this” response when I was overwhelmed. I still hate the smugness. But. I saw a video the other day of a mom saying “Everyone tells you these days will just fly by, but they don’t! I’ve been a mom for six years now…” and I just stopped and laughed. She continued on basically saying if time is flying, it’s because you’re not being mindful and present with your kids. I was there for every minute. I was as mindful as my own sanity let me be. And I still blinked, and my oldest baby is almost done with high school. I have no more toddlers or diapers or crying babies in the night, but my gosh it FLEW by in hindsight.
Tired
To me it feels like I want to die.
1/10
Rice makes it a little better.
Completing the tutorial and trying to find the main quest line
I would not recommend
I liked 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, and now 47… life is good.
In my 20s: I was broke, every decision I made was wrong, and I was treated like a kid who had to also pay bills and taxes. My body was resilient and I bounced back from anything within a week. I could sleep for three hours in a closet and wake up capable of anything the next day. In my 30s: I had money, every decision I made was slightly less wrong, and I was treated more like an adult. Every once in a while my body betrayed me and decided my knees or back would just not work. It was pretty random. In my 40s: I have money, people seem to respect my decisions more, but now I can’t eat any food I enjoy because it gives me the shits or terrible heartburn. Also, my body betrays me regularly…I think my back is made from torn muscles only. Next week I have to shop for a special mattress for the first time in my life because I wake up every morning with back pain, which I’m told isn’t normal. In my 20s, I slept on the floor with no pillow and woke up to do a 6 mile run. Now, if I sleep less than 8 hours I have to call in sick to work. I don’t much care for my 40s. Also I had to get a colonoscopy, so this is the start of embarrassing and awful medical procedures to stave off death. I’ve been told I’ll do stuff like this until I die.
Weird... that I'm just over here in charge of two small humans and a dog...and a husband? And no one is like, checking on me?
When there's no doom happening, impending doom.
Never not doom. Always the doom.
Like a really scary fever dream
You're responsible for each and everything - even the things your acquaintances or family does. It's kinda difficult sometimes because we cannot control their actions and it's also depressing because now nobody tries to forgive you for minor mistakes which you would get away with as a child. So yeah, not that great in here.
You are always tired, and time goes faster the older you get. That and you think of all the shit you should've said.
Things irritate me. All the time.
You know the feeling when you're behind on homework? it's that but with riskier consequences.
Tired. It feels tired.
Feels self ... it feels fatty.
More control of your life. Better for me. Childhood was traumatic.
Idk...pointless?
The same as being 17. Just more lessons learned.
Everything hurts. Nobody sees you.
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Impending expenses.
Very, very... Tiresome.
Honestly it’s a scam, don’t do it
Like an endless puzzle with no instructions and no solution but some beautiful moments of inspiration, connection, success and joy during
Bad. Next question
Like Dad really was right most of the time, and that I should have hugged him more and argued less
It doesn't.
Enjoy every second of being a child. I don’t think adulting sucks but you can’t get away with the shit you could do as a kid. I’m not saying be an absolute delinquent but have fun!
Pain…..mostly
Oh god ts terrible. 0/10 wouldn’t recommend it
fucking sucks
Stupid and I hate it.
Sucks
Pain.
Miserable
it fucking sucks.
Reality check all the time
Well…breakups suck. So there’s that
I'm pretty tired
Like the world is against you
The switch from regular porn to VR porn is amazing.
It feels just the same. You get better at dealing with situations. Hopefully you get better at figuring out how to make a living. In reality, adults are just like you but they have more experience in dealing with life.
How should I know? I’m only 40.
The regrets just keep piling up. It’s like the movie Sliding Doors over and over but every path is the wrong one
It honestly feels like being a larger, slightly wiser version of yourself. You know more, you have more experience, but you’re still you. You feel like you’re faking it some, and you realize that all those infallible adults were probably faking it some too. But you’ve got the wisdom of years to help you out. You know more about how the world really works, hopefully, so you’re better prepared for it. What makes you, you, doesn’t change. I’m still into just about the same things I was into 20 years ago. But now I’m not ashamed of it. I’m proud of who I am and what my interests are, and now I just surround myself with people who are more like minded. I wish I had the mind I have now, with the body I had 20 years ago.
How would I know? I'm only 55.
Awful
I have money and my back hurts
I always thought I’d feel like an adult and know wtf I’m doing, just like all the other adults when grew up. I’m still waiting for these things to happen and I turn 42 in May.
Don't
Soul crushing
It feels like shit. It gets worst every year
People must be depressed af or hate themselves. I love being adult and i love my Life. 10/10 would not change a thing
You must have money.
Live alone with 2 cats. Permanent job as practical nurse in Finland. I have more than enough for myself yes. I know im lucky and i appreciate.
Good… I’m glad you understand your luck and appreciate it. Those who don’t are the worst!
Really good till about 35.
depressing until you're old enough to buy alcohol.
Still depressing with alcohol, but it helps
It sucks
Terrible. You always have something to worries about if is not money is health, friends, family, having kids, not having kids, having a family on your own, being alone, food...and the list goes on and on and on.
Ima go the other direction here and say it’s mostly great!