Does anyone feel like an actual adult?
Does anyone feel like an actual adult?
Even with a good career and all the "adult milestones" I don't feel like an actual adult. I feel like I'm pretending to know what I'm doing. Anyone else experience this?
Does anyone feel like an actual adult?
Even with a good career and all the "adult milestones" I don't feel like an actual adult. I feel like I'm pretending to know what I'm doing. Anyone else experience this?
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I don’t feel like an actual adult. I feel like I’m pretending to know what I’m doing.
That's the first step. The next step is looking back on your "mundane" adult accomplishments:
Then you glance to your left and your right and see some of your peers doing magically better, but more importantly you see a chunk of your peers not able to accomplish anything in the list above. You see what you now recognize is your growth and maturing and their lack of it.
The second step is to realize that you are indeed an adult. This is what being an adult is. The situations change, the difficulty in scope or scale increases, but its variations on what you've done before and the second, third, fourth...hundredth iteration aren't as hard as your first attempt in your early adulthood.
You realize that there isn't a single defining threshold you crossed at some point in the past where you went from "kid" to "adult". You also realize that some people make it all the way into their 60s and 70s without ever becoming an adult.
Maybe I'm rare but I made a bucket list in high school of things to do as an adult. Some lame but some cool.
Accomplished
I had maybe five I haven't completed yet but should be able to in a few years.
I'm glad you're knocking out so many items you listed you wanted to do when you were younger, but I'd consider about 6 of those "adulting".
High school me didn't know that lol