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3. Starting a family
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You’re fine, don’t worry about it. I’m 31 and I don’t feel like an adult.
40 and still don’t. I think most adults are faking it to be honest.
When I went to pick up my 4 year old at daycare and when I got to the classroom door a kid shouted, โSomeoneโs dad is here!!!โ
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I’m almost 40 and still don’t feel like one. At least not compared to how my parents were my age.
I forget who said it but. As a kid, we looked up to adults as people who seemed to have everything figured out. Always had a plan, knew best, and were overall in control of things. Now, after being an adult, 34 with a 13yo son, I can tell you with certainty that we’re all just winging it.
Im about to be 43 and still feel like a 25 year old, my body not so much lol.
I have a feeling that growing up, we saw many adults who felt just like we do now, but we assumed they felt like adults because we saw them that way. How you look and how you feel can be two entirely different things. Cut yourself some slack ๐
We’re all faking it. You’re fine.
Honestly felt this hard today reading all the comments helped
Adult is a label we give people. I don’t feel like an adult and I don’t know that I ever will but I am one by definition.
You have a vision of what an adult is and you don’t think you match that vision but you’re probably closer to it than you give yourself credit for, you just assume everyone else has their shit together but you don’t. When in actuality no one really has their shit together.
Thereโs a saying in cycling that goes โIt doesnโt get easier, you just get faster.โ
I think thatโs basically how life works. You never stop having to deal with challenges. The challenges get bigger and more frequent and you get better at dealing with them just in time for the next even bigger challenge. Over and over.
Yes it’s normal you feel like yourself that’s all. Just keep being you.
I’m 39 and I feel way younger than that.
Boys will always be boys.
It’s totally okay to be a kid inside, as long as you can be “the adult” for your family, and the people you are rescuing. I’m sure you can keep a much cooler head in a tough situation than an accountant who has all his taxes and bills figured out. (love my number peeps, you cool too)
Haha, that’s the neat part..
At 54, I’m reaching the end of a 30 career with full retirement benefits and still can’t decide what I want to do when I grow up.
I’m still active, still ride dirt bikes, still hike and camp. I have no intention to sit on the couch.
I don’t feel like a adult accept for the aches and pains when I get out of bed. I think as others have said, it’s a mental perspective.
Your problem is that you note all the stuff you did and guess have a list what you didn’t accomplished yet.
Throw that *notepad* away and live your life.
43 here. I don’t believe it to be real at this point and I’m convinced everyone’s just pretending
At 35, I’ve realized “adulting” is just a high score in the game of responsibilities. We level up through experiences, not years. Each new “level” feels like it brings a set of challenges that would have baffled us at “level 18.” And just when you think you’ve mastered a skill, life throws you a side quest you didn’t expect. Our parents had cheat codes they never shared, or maybe they were just good at improvising. Either way, it’s less about feeling like an adult and more about playing the game as best as we can, with the tools we’ve acquired along the way.
Adult male = responsible kid…..
It happened to me somewhere between 33 and 35. Don’t know exactly what it was, maybe buying the house, getting married or the job promotion to management. Something there made my brain *clic* and now I percieve myself as an adult and act like one.
I guess it happened late in life because I was very immature during my 20’s.
I felt like one when I was 100% on my own at 18.
Scary shit, no one to rely on but myself.
Being a duly is just a shell. Iโm 41 and still feel like I did when I was 25. Just more experienced in life ๐
I am almost 41, and the only time I remember that I am 41 is when I do something that my still 21 year old brain thinks that my 40 year old body can do without pulling a random muscle that cripples me for days or having a transient myocardial infarction. Being an “Adult” is a lie, what really matters is if you have maturity and discipline.
Enjoy being young in mind and spirit, and save the dour, grumpy old man attitude for when you actually do become a dour, grumpy old man.
Sounds normal to me. Wait till you get to be in your 60s like me and still have that same attitude.
Your mind is giving you a gift don’t fight it. I have friends that were old and done in their mid thirties. I am very old and I still think I’m in my 50’s. Hang in there you got it made!
I was kind of thinking about this. Iโm 41 and while Iโm mature (for the most part), have my shit together, and am a responsible adult, I definitely do not feel as โadultyโ as I perceived adults when i was a kid.
Asked my 65yo mom this the other day and she says the feeling never goes away haha
Weโre all just faking it bro.
Iโm 33 and the only difference is that I can afford fancier toys than when I was a kid.
Iโve bought a Pontiac GTO, a Toyota 86 and Iโm saving up for a Corvette.
The only difference between an adult and a kid is that we have the power to make those dream cars a reality instead of just being a poster on the wall.
Friend of mine put it best โYouโre responsible but immature.โ Yes, I provide for my family, sent both kids to college, bought a house, saved for my retirement with a 401k, but farts are STILL hysterical. And I still say to my wife when she asks what do you want for dinner, I still say โpoopโ.