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08-02-2018, 10:51 AM | #1 | |||
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So I saw in the daily mirror yesterday 50 signs you are an adult so just wondering when was the first time you felt like an adult
I would say when I got my first job and first pay packet. |
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08-02-2018, 10:52 AM | #2 | |||
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Not till I was pregnant with my daughter really, I was 21 then
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08-02-2018, 10:53 AM | #3 | |||
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08-02-2018, 10:57 AM | #4 | ||
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I left home when I was 19, I had a child and was in full time employment at 24, I had two children at 27.
Honestly? I'd say I started to feel "on par with other adults" (meaning, I look at adults and think of them as the same as me... not "the grown ups" ) when I was about... err... 29 maybe? I'm 32 now But here's the caveat: It's not that I feel any different... not really... that's just when it suddenly dawned on me that EVERYONE is just muddling through and sort of winging it whether they're 18 and starting University, or 61 and attempting to run the country. It's a strange realisation, in equal parts comforting and terrifying. Last edited by Toy Soldier; 08-02-2018 at 10:57 AM. |
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08-02-2018, 10:59 AM | #5 | |||
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The only reason i felt like an adult when I was pregnant was the crushing realistion that I now had another human being relying on me for everything
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08-02-2018, 11:02 AM | #6 | ||
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Yeah; that moment when you get handed a newborn in the hospital and realise that you're just going to... take it home and look after it... . Like "Hold on, shouldn't someone be making sure I'm doing this right??"
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08-02-2018, 11:06 AM | #7 | |||
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yeah Up till then my attitude was "**** it, what's the worst that can happen" then suddenly the answer is "YOU COULD KILL SOMEONE"
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08-02-2018, 11:06 AM | #8 | |||
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Babies are easy. You just refer to the manual. Right?
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08-02-2018, 11:08 AM | #9 | ||
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I left home at 16, I thought I felt adult then.
I got my first real job soon after. Which again I thought made me feel adult. I moved abroad, alone when I was 18. Again, felt like an adult But really, the only thing that has actually made me feel like an adult was having children. But oddly, I still don't feel like I imagine an adult should feel in most areas of life tbh, if that makes sense? I like I feel like a 20 year old trapped in a 30 year olds body. My 'self' is still exactly the same as it was back then, just I know how to behave more like an adult now, so fake it
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08-02-2018, 11:09 AM | #10 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:10 AM | #11 | |||
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My dad had a lot of health problems and became quite dramatically disabled when I was a young adult and my mum was an alcoholic so I had to be a grown up pretty fast. 16 for me.
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08-02-2018, 11:11 AM | #12 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:23 AM | #13 | ||
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jaxie you have had it hard.
the cards we are dealt - makes the person we are - |
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08-02-2018, 11:30 AM | #14 | ||
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So yeah, in "practical terms" I was totally self sufficient relatively young, and I think at the time I thought I was very grown up emotionally, but in retrospect I was just a kid doing what was necessary . |
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08-02-2018, 11:31 AM | #15 | ||
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I still don’t feel like an adult and I’m 19
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08-02-2018, 11:37 AM | #16 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:38 AM | #17 | |||
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I still dont. I'm 24 now but still feel the same as when I was 18 really, although I am a massive manchild
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08-02-2018, 11:39 AM | #18 | |||
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Wise words Hog.
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08-02-2018, 11:46 AM | #19 | |||
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I'm going to go for a different angle. I'm going to say at the first death of a family member. Nothing makes you grow up faster than that I think, and bring into focus what is and whats not important in life .... which is really what being an adult really is.
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08-02-2018, 11:50 AM | #20 | ||
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But yes I do agree with the first part in general: like I said before, I think a huge part of that "feeling like an adult" is the realisation that "adults" don't necessarily feel how we imagined. |
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08-02-2018, 11:52 AM | #21 | |||
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It's funny how misery does love company, these things always come in multiples. Like the year my dad died, my 29 year old best friend died too. 3 months apart.
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08-02-2018, 11:56 AM | #22 | |||
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08-02-2018, 12:21 PM | #23 | |||
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All hail the Moyesiah
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This forum is very deep today
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08-02-2018, 12:24 PM | #24 | |||
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For a while really .
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08-02-2018, 12:24 PM | #25 | |||
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When I had to do my first tax return
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