For a lot of people, they see themselves as adults just because they have reached the legal age which puts them in the adulthood bracket in their geographical area. They see adulthood as the age when they are free to do their own thing without having to be fully subjected to the decisions of their parents.
Once that age is around the corner, folks embrace it with so much anticipation of what adulthood will bring to the table. As they take a deep dive into adulthood, the experience obviously varies. However, one thing that's quite common for most people is that being an adult means they now have to be accountable and take responsibility for their own life.
Indeed, the world is already going to shit and a lot of things are no longer the same as how they were when I was still a kid. However, what remains the same is that most kids do not have to worry too much about the economy. They don't have to worry about a monetary investment they made. Also, they don't have to worry about what to eat or where the next meal is coming from.
Meanwhile, as an adult who already has a slight clue of how the world works, you just can't stop thinking and working towards making the right decisions. You know you have to get it right in your relationship with people. You know you have to make a good career choice and you know you can't afford to shit the bed when making a whole lot of decisions.
You know how everyone goes on to say that adulthood is hard. That's because it's truly hard to be an adult.
We probably don't do a good job of getting teens prepared to voluntarily embrace what it entails to be an adult. This is why a lot of people made a lot of bad decisions when they became adults and some of those bad decisions generated repercussions that made adulthood harder than it was ever supposed to be.
A good example of what we get to do as adults is to choose our sacrifice. Adulthood will throw a lot on your path and it's obvious you have to choose to do a few things while sacrificing a few other things.
You can choose to party, flex your life, and carelessly spend every penny that gets into your account when you are a young adult.
You can also choose to use that moment to learn important skills, improve yourself, build a future for yourself, and hopefully do fairly inspiring things.
At every moment of your life as an adult, you are faced with decisions which you have to make and each decision comes with a sacrifice. Yeah! The sacrifice is inevitable. The result is also not guaranteed. Now, you can choose to sacrifice every other thing to build a business and grow it into a high-net-worth enterprise.
Would that guarantee success?
Nope!
Even with the best plan, you can still get a very shitty result. And, the world won't be there to listen to why you failed. You will even feel like you wasted your time chasing something unachievable. These are just a few of the things we have to face as adults and I can guarantee that none of those are easy to deal with. It explains why some adults are going through a hellish adulthood experience.
The question of who to blame is something we will look into some other time. For now, the truth remains that adulthood is hard. That's also the case even for someone who's having a fairly inspiring adulthood.
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