Are you an adult?

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Permalink Reply by floreta on June 12, 2010 at 5:29am

I'm 27 and still don't feel like an adult!!

For me, "being an adult" is just one of many hats/roles that I play. It's not my whole identity. I have to be an adult when I make decisions, and board a plane by myself halfway across the world, for example. When I sell all my stuff and up and leave. When I decide to start my own business... And then start to implement it. But half of those "adult" things like buying a house (which I've already done, btw and decided it wasn't for me), getting married, having kids, taking care of your parents when they die and selling their house, coordinating the funeral (does anyone else get scared by this??) scare the SHIT out of me!!

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Permalink Reply by Ashley on June 14, 2010 at 2:16pm

I am an adult, I'm 21 but I definitely do not feel like one despite the fact that I don't live with my parents (I live a whole country away from them), I pay my own bills, live on my own but I still feel oddly childish. I just thought that once I got to this stage I would have some worldly knowledge of some sort. I still think I know a LITTLE bit more than when I was 16 but not so much.

I don't think your friend's idea of an adult is right. I think an adult is someone who makes decisions for themselves, fend for themselves and kind of have a job. I still think an "adult" could be childish if they're living with their parents and I mean like, they're not trying to live anywhere else and they haven't tried. I'm not talking about ones who can't afford to live anywhere else but those who just are lazy sloths sucking the life out of their parents. That may sound cold but anyway, I just think of an adult as someone pretty much trying to make a name for themselves, whether or not they're failing or succeeding.

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