This is the part III and final post in the "adult problems that nobody prepares us for" series. If you haven't read the previous parts, you can check out the first part here and the second part here.

I have loved what you guys had to say in the last two posts and I am glad that most people could relate to the problems that I mentioned and in fact made me see these problems in a different light. So, without further adieu let me list the final problems that I want to discuss today.

Absence of Clear Direction In Life

When we are students, all the way till college we are pretty much told what to do and how to do it but once we are out of college and start working, we realize that society just stops telling us what to do and how to do it.

Even though this feels liberating and is actually liberating, is also terrifying because without guidance most of us fail to see the clear direction that is needed in our lives.

In our childhood and teenage, things are often graded and they are clearly either right or wrong. But in the adult world, there is no such thing as empirical right or wrong, the adult world is just shades of gray.

Often there are times when there will be no such thing as a right or a wrong decision but we are still supposed to make a choice anyway without really having much to determine which option is the more right or the most right.

Dealing With Loneliness

When we are kids, there is always someone around us, be it a sibling, a parent or a classmate. We rarely are left completely unattended for any significant period of time and there is hardly such a thing as loneliness in our lives.

There are always people who take care of us, who talk to us, who listen to us and who advise us. Childhood is full of social interactions. But when we step into adulthood, everything starts to change.

Now there aren't people around us everytime, people who would care for us, listen to us, attend to us. Social interaction reduces to a bare minimum. Adulthood can be quite terrifyingly lonely.

A majority of adults go weeks without talking to anyone about anything not work related. They are left to their own to deal with any problems that may arise in their lives with no support system. This loneliness and having to deal with it throughout our adult life is something we are never prepared for.

Realizing How Hard It Is To Reach The 'Bare Minimum'

Everyone has goals in life. And a subset of those goals are 'reasonable goals'. These are goals that qualify as bare minimum and they vary on person to person.

For some people bare minimum is owning a house and a car, having a successful married life with kids and having a decent paying job while for others bare minimum is owning a boat, a dog and running a fish & chip shop by the beach.

It all varies but the point is that there is no one who doesn't have bare minimum goals in their lives. And these goals are usually decided upon during our teenage, when we are at the cusp of adulthood and ready to step into the real deal.

However once we reach adulthood and start working towards our goals, we realize that even reaching the bare minimum is very hard. There will be just so many uninvited problems and unnecessary obstructions in the path towards our goals and all of them just make it so difficult to achieve what we want to achieve. What used to seem easy when we decided upon it now seems out of reach with each problem life throws at us.