Now I don’t know about you. But growing up, I always thought that there would just come a time when I’d feel like an adult. You know, feel responsible, know what I was doing with my life and have my shizz together. I thought it would happen at 18, it didn’t. I was a naive teen heading to Uni thinking I knew everything but the reality was I knew nothing. It didn’t happen at 21 either. I was still at Uni and only just starting to realise how little I really knew about the world and what it meant to be an adult. And you know what, I still didn’t feel like an adult at 30. Despite climbing the career ladder and having the normal adult responsibilities of you know, surviving and paying bills. I still didn’t feel like I was qualified to be an adult.
I still feel like a teenager in my head. But don’t we all? Anyway, just for fun, here are 13 reasons why I’m really not qualified to be an adult
- I’m only responsible for my self, and even then I question how I’ve survived this long
- When I don’t know what to do, I always turn to an adultier adult to find the answer
- It freaks me out that to some people I am an adultier adult
- I still expect an easter egg and advent calendar from my parents
- I think it’s perfectly acceptable to have crisps and dip for dinner, multiple times a week
- Bills, mortgages and insurance documents confuse me
- I still waste a good 40 minutes just sitting on my bed in my towel playing on my phone after a shower
- My diet can best be described as ‘unchaperoned child at a birthday party’
- I could do with a daily afternoon nap
- I struggle to get through the day without snacks
- I’ve not learnt the art of a capsule wardrobe, I either dress like I’m going to a red carpet event, or like I’m a homeless drug addict. There is no inbetween.
Let me know in the comments whether you feel qualified to be adult or not.