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Signs You've Grown Up
1. You keep more food than beer in your fridge.
2. 6:00 a.m. is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
3. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
4. You go from 130 days of vacation time to seven.
5. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
6. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
7. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
8. Dinner and a movie are now the whole date instead of just the beginning of one.
9. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits.
10. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
hmm... I'm still young. :p no need for insurance bills and other crap like that. :p
I get 14 days of vacation time. I must be doing good.
I technically get twenty-one, and for where I work, that's on the low end. The dinner and a movie one though, sometimes that really can be the case.
A dinner is really considered a date no matter how old you are.... right? I'm still young. I act so immature sometimes. but, I don't wanna grow up and become an adult with lots of bills to pay. :(
Growing up has more advantages than disadvantages. However, no reason to rush it, all in due course.
Guess I've not grown up then.
*sigh*
And unfortunately, most of us grow out as well as up.
This is all true. it is all real also.
All of this. Just... all of this. When you realize that o one really has their shit
together, no matter how old they are.
When you get nothing in the mail but bills.
Being a grown up is over rated. I'm 25 and I wish I had a more adult adult
around.
What's weird to me is I hear people my daughter's age talk about "adulating". I guess we just did it. For better and for worse, both. Becoming an adult was a right of passage in a way, sure. You got to do more, in theory not get yelled at by your mom for coming in in the wee hours of the morning, Work all day, party all night, that sort of thging, at least during summers at college.
But now, to hear them talk, becoming an adult is "such a burden".
Look, I get it, it's tough starting out. Hell, lots of times I lived on the infamous Top ramen like most of you young people no doubt do. And turned the heat down to save on bills. And all the rest of it. We bitched about finances, bitched about what the hell we were supposed to do now that jobs were being downsized, early 90s word for outsourced. But I don't think we ever considered childhood a better deal. Things in life were certainly something to bitch about, but I just can't fathom being young and considering adulthood itself to be a burden. Kind of the opposite in fact. I think many of us thought, "As bad as it can get, at least we're not kids anymore," and rather resented the old folks still calling us kids.
I like the ability to make decisions for myself but the concept of age appropriate interests gets in my way. As you age, you're supposed to replace certain interests with those that other people deem more appropriate. I can't always follow such a rigid developmental schedule.
Age appropriate is such a stupid word anyhow.
Lol when I was in my 20s they told us when we matured, we'd switch from beer to wine, and guys who went by nicknames, would "mature" into using full names that ""symbolized being more productive" -- 1980s word for contributing to the machinery of society.
That's all BS, do what you want. And always remember, it's a lot more fun to spend it than it is to earn it. lol
I usually see, or use, the term adulting when I have to be responsible and self-disciplined about an issue I'd rather not be. For example, money. In my teens and twenties, if I had money, I bought what I wanted, when I wanted it. Saving? What was that? Planning for the future? Nah. Now I have to think about things like, if I do this now, I can't do that later. Or, what do I really need more vs. what do I just want? Money is just one example. It also goes for things like time management, procrastination, etc. I'd never wish to actually go back to childhood, but there are times when I miss not having to be so damn responsible. LOL.
Voyager said:
"I like the ability to make decisions for myself but the concept of age appropriate
interests gets in my way. As you age, you're supposed to replace certain interests with
those that other people deem more appropriate. I can't always follow such a rigid
developmental schedule."
Yeah, as you age you're supposed to grow out of ignorant intentional trolling of people,
but you had no problems with doing it in replies to my ONLY original post on this forum,
so welcome to Trollville, Voyager. I have a lot of time and energy.
By the way, I think you might not be allowed to quote what other users say, because if somebody were to be ignoring that user's board posts, they'd still see what the post said. But I could be wrong, and anyways, I shouldn't care, should I...?
If this user doesn't get in trouble for being vulgur and abusive , I doubt quoting is going to bother people. Most message boards allow quoting; most people just don't do it.
True true.
Hypocrisy much? Calling someone a troll (which is untrue in that case, I should add), and essentially hijacking an entirely different thread in the process. That's trolling.
As far as adulting goes, I concur with most of what I've seen here. I've had a pretty rough go of things, made a lot of really bad decisions over the years, and am nowhere near where I thought I'd be if you'd asked me fifteen years or so ago.
But I like the original post. It made me chuckle. Because inasmuch as I know I've made bad choices, I still know how to make adult choices (I'd better, I'm thirty-three after all), and it's not as if it's some enormous burden. Sure, sometimes it's a bit of a downer, but that's the price you pay for independence. And me, I pay it gladly.
Who ever said I'm grown up? Depends on who you ask and under what circumstances. But to answer the question more directly, I guess the most evident sign is arthritis. Sorry, just couldn't resist. Laughing.
Another thing, is you start saying: "When I was your age..."
I swore I'd "NEVER SAY THAT!" I confess, that's an oath I've broken.
And, when people like your doctor, or the nurse, or whoever in the clinic is younger than you. I remember this lady at the U-Dub, saying she remembered holding me in the palm of her hand. Well, Now people in the medical profession say how much older I am. LOL
Blessings,
The old lady.