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77 Painfully Accurate Memes For Anyone Who Thought Growing Up Would Be More Fun Than It Actually Is
At some point between 18 and 30, the truth about adulthood arrives, and it is nothing like the brochure. The brochure said freedom, independence, and making your own rules. The reality is a grocery bill that keeps climbing, a bedtime you now enforce on yourself, and the creeping suspicion that everyone else has figured something out that you have not.
The internet has been processing this collective disappointment through memes, and the results are uncomfortably accurate. Not the inspirational kind of accurate. The one where you laugh a little, which then fades into a whimper. These are the ones that hit closest to home, so we can write this off as group therapy.
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Ghostchaplain16 4 hours ago
Well, now, let's not get carried away here. Quitting a job, well, okay. But putting ALL the laundry away. That might be a bridge too far.
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Colleen Glim 4 hours ago
This working bullshìt is bullshìt. There’s gotta be a better way. Unfortunately, I didn’t marry a rich man and playing the lottery has also failed me. Sigh
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Colleen Glim 4 hours ago
Another reason why I don’t like parties. You did not help pay for this. You do not get to enjoy it
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Colleen Glim 4 hours ago
Laundry isn’t there for you. It’s always judging and finding you lacking
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Colleen Glim 4 hours ago
Nah. There have been times when I’ve eaten dessert for breakfast and I’m not the least bit sorry. Because I’m a grown àss adult and I can do that
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Chihuahua Mama 4 hours ago
I try not to do 2 sentences in a row. Sometimes I feel like I'm coming off rude in the non-exclamation point sentence, though!
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
And then arguing with yourself because you have to cook said food and takeout is so much easier but your bank account weighs in
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago (edited)
You’re sitting for this?! My morning routine includes cursing at my alarm, hitting snooze at least twice, and laying in bed regretting my life choices
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Colleen Glim 4 hours ago
They do this on purpose. Because the more time you spend looking for stuff you need, the more likely you are to add random stuff to your cart. I spent 12 years working in a grocery store
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
I have called that o’fùck thirty for many years now. I refuse to get up at that hour anymore. Been there, done that. Never again
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
Grab the tablet and doomscrolling until the laptop decides to stop being stupid
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
Potentially reaching this point tomorrow morning. Not so much how much is this going to cost, as it’s only mid October, it’s too early to turn the furnace on
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
I don’t need stupid amounts of money. I just need enough money to afford a bottle of wine or takeout, or both, as and when I feel like it
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
I have reached the point that I will regularly schedule a day to do exactly this for my own mental health. You do not owe them anything more than showing up and doing what’s required. Take a day, frequently, to do what you feel like doing. Don’t sacrifice your mental health for a job
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
It will never happen. And if it does, be sure and buy a lottery ticket because you about to get rich
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
We’re all making it up as we go along and hoping nobody is shouting at us about something. This is adulthood
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Colleen Glim 3 hours ago
the older I get, the faster the years go. I swear it was last Christmas a minute ago
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