40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don’t Cross Teens’ Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread

When you're a kid and a teenager, the idea of adulthood can seem like a promise of a brand new world full of thrilling opportunities and all sorts of amazing things. You finally get your well-deserved freedom, there's absolutely nobody to tell you what to do, you can create and live your life however you want and, most importantly, you finally have the liberty to go to sleep whenever you'd like, right?

In reality, once the long-awaited adulthood finally visits, stuff tends to get a tiny bit more complicated, and this AskReddit thread with over 74k upvotes is the perfect proof of that. The thread was started by the user u/berkel-is-a-madlad who asked fellow community members "What is something that sucks about being an adult that most teenagers don’t realize?" With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look at some of the best answers we managed to find. As always, feel free to answer the question yourself in the comment section.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread For me it's watching my parents get old.

As a teenager I thought they were all about keeping me restricted and controlled. Now I realize they're just two people who never had a kid before, did the best they knew how, and fu**ed up at times like all other humans on the planet.

I never realized how much I needed them emotionally until I saw my father through his open heart surgery, and saw Parkinson's take my mother's independence.

So here I am still feeling like a teenager on the inside, staring down the barrel of 50, wondering what the hell happened.

Hemenucha , Arian Zwegers Report

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BastWren 3 years ago

Here's a good lesson, then. Tell your parents that you love them now, rather than after the fact when they are gone and won't know. Even with their faults (we all have them) try to appreciate them for who they are. Keep in mind that they will not be here forever; life is ephemeral and one day (whether through accident/illness, etc., or due to age) they will be gone, often suddenly. I realize that this doesn't apply the same for people who have parents from hell...I mean for everyone else.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Planning dinner every damn night.

MelG146 , Gregory Chittim Report

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hyperunknown 3 years ago

Our everyday struggle - "What do you want to eat today?" - "I don't know" - "Me either" .. Not the worst problem in the world obviously but still :p

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You don't fundamentally change, you are still you, even if you are older. It's the same you, you just need to survive in the adult world.

You don't gain adult powers, you just have to do adult things.

Pontus_Pilates , Alin Mechenici Report

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Happi doggi 3 years ago

It’s like when a girl gets her first period. Does she suddenly have infinite information about it? No, she just has to figure it out and survive having it every month for the next 50 years.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You can do whatever you want, but most of the time you either have commitments that prevent it, or you can't afford it.

[deleted] , Yamanaka Tamaki Report

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somekid 3 years ago

the sad reality of life

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread One day your body will betray you.

LeicaM6guy , Michael Sauers Report

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Getting hurt in your 20s means actually doing something that screwed up your body. Getting hurt in your 50s: you slept wrong.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Being lonely. Making friends as an adult is difficult, sometimes verging on impossible. You don't see people in your age group who are doing the same things you are every day anymore.

HilariousDisaster , Alireza Borhani Report

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Alan Gale 3 years ago

This is so real, especially where I live. If it were not for my GF, (and we do not live together) I would not know a single person irl.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You are always cleaning the kitchen

Hollowman212 , Mike Burns Report

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R Carson 3 years ago

Or not

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You come home from work and you're tired and if you don't feel like making dinner, then you're not eating dinner.

lightskinkanye , Par Boman Report

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Robert T 3 years ago

Automatic diet day ;-)

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread The repetition makes you lose time. Having the same job, workout regimen, schedule in general makes days blend into one another

Edit. Thanks for all the replies. I just want to point out I didn't mean life becomes boring. I was just talking about lack of those major separators we had as children like summer vacation, new school, your first kiss, etc. Due to those major separators missing I don't recall if I did something a year ago or 3 years ago. It's a little blurry if something happened 2 weeks ago or 4 months ago. This is because once you have a career and a home you're doing a lot of similar things most days(work, chores, cooking, hobbies, etc). This is why the days start to blend into one another, at least in your memory.

TinyBig_Jar0fPickles , Chris Lott Report

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Robert T 3 years ago

Time definitely accelerates as you get older.

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#10

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens, there’s no one else to deal with it.

Plugged toilet? You gotta clear it.

Car outta gas? You gotta fill it.

Run out of clean undies? You gotta do laundry.

From small things to massive things, there’s no one to make it go away but you.

mswoodie , Chiot's Run Report

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R Carson 3 years ago

Especially if you are a home owner.

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#11

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread That ordering food is actually expensive and your parents weren’t lying to you

soundecember , Ingrid Taylar Report

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J Rob 3 years ago

Ordering food to feed the birds also racks up quickly.

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#12

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread There’s never enough time for all the things you need to do. Definitely not enough time for the things you want to do

GiraffeMother , Claire Thompson Report

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R Carson 3 years ago

Yep

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#13

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Life revolves around grocery shopping, preparing food, washing dishes, doing laundry, vacuuming and tidying up. It does not stop, don't let it pile up for the weekends or else you waste your weekends stuck indoors.

Alcohol is not your friend, it does not have the answers you are looking for, and usually gets you in even more trouble. Drink with friends to celebrate, don't drink alone in silence.

MostProbablyWrong , Julie Jordan Scott Report

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Moodles 3 years ago

This is the perfect example for adulthood!

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#14

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread A $1000 pay check isn’t nearly as exciting as an adult

ecitruoc , Gunnar Wrobel Report

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Robert T 3 years ago

Thank you, but I don't want to be paid in adults, if its all the same to you. Cold hard cash will be just fine. ;-)

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#15

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread When all the cliches that used to piss you off start making sense and meaning something, but you can’t explain it to younger people because they haven’t lived that life experience yet.

SmokeyFlannel , pxfuel Report

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

As I age I just find those cliches more and more reductive and less helpful.

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#16

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread People expect you to know what you're doing.

PmMeYourHotA** , Michal Hantl Report

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hyperunknown 3 years ago

Fake it 'till you make it!

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#17

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Each day is desperately short. Work consumes 75% of the time you’re awake. And the time you’re free is spent doing chores and being tired. Hobbies slowly cease to exist and you just start to look for quick escapes.

goingrogueatwork , George Redgrave Report

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Usually if you work 40h and dont have children you still have some time. I worked a very physical job in my late 20s full time and still had time to game in the weekends. But if you have kids yeah no free time.

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#18

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread That you had no idea what you were talking about when you were a teenager

BoomChocolateLatkes , Liz Henry Report

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

I was 14 and my mum bought me a poster. It said: "Oh Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I am talking about". HAHAHA

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#19

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Dental care. It’s so damn expensive if you let your teeth degrade. Please floss my dudes.

[deleted] , Tetsumo Report

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smugdruggler 3 years ago

Yeah, if I could go back in time and give myself some advice I would say "look after your teeth and take care of your back".

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#20

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Forgetting your age is a real problem. The only people who remind me how old I am are my kids, and i often have to double check. I used to ask my parents how old they were and they always "cant remember" or said "21" and it confused me. I get it now.

magicatom_87 , Ben+Sam Report

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AJ 3 years ago

Totally agree! I can tell my age approximately, or I can quickly calculate it, but no way remembering it right just like that.

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#21

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Even though February is the shortest month, the rent is still the same

whycantifindmyname , Alex Lin Report

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Charlie grace 3 years ago

I knew someone whose tenant thought she didn't need to pay rent when she went on holiday for 2 weeks because she wouldn't be there :)

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#22

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You know all those things you thought you would do when you were out on your own? They cost money, and you have to work for it...

AmericanExpat76 , Evan Bench Report

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Yelena Yardeen 3 years ago

Even just breathing costs money

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#23

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread The adult part.

The moment you need to pay for everything and the realization that fresh food spoils faster than you ever noticed before was eye opening

OneMorePotion , gerlos Report

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Zophra 3 years ago

Looking at you avocados!

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#24

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread The importance and scarcity of time. Your "you time" gets seriously reduced as you get older and your other responsibilities mount up. I used to think that spending half an hour cleaning 3 times a week was the worst thing ever. Now I spend about an hour cleaning pretty much every day. Between work, maintaining a house, and raising kids, the amount of you time gets reduced to.minutes a day. Anything else you want to do means sacrificing sleep.

The other thing is how true "time=money" actually is. Simply existing and breathing costs money. Food, rent, bills, transport cost money. Often the difference between happiness and unhappiness for me was comfortably making it to my next paycheck.

MontiBurns , Shadow Byrd Report

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

This should be higher up. Time goes down the toilet especially with kids.

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#25

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Adult acne. It doesn’t magically go away when you turn 18

PoorCorrelation , Caitlin Regan Report

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AJ 3 years ago

Also you might get occasional pimples or even acne even if you already have wringles. Sadly they don't opt each others out.

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#26

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You need to be mentally prepared for the "benchmarks" in your life to not happen or for them to not happen on the right schedule. The big events in your life up to now have been driven and put into place largely by governments and parents and teachers. This is by design - to slowly teach you the relationship between efforts and results. The accomplishments you have laid out as an adult in front of you are largely up to you, and your place in society has a lot more to do with luck than you'd probably like to think.

As a teenager you tend to think "I will get married at 28, have a kid at 30 and 33, but only after I've graduated from the elite engineering program of my choice." You may not achieve any of those things, and the obsession with delivering them on schedule will cause you deep frustration or even grief. You may not find a spouse, or have a child, or own a house, or even remain relatively healthy.

Learn to give yourself a break now before you spend years of your life grieving the future you believe you screwed yourself out of.

HollyHobbyOxenfree , bryan anthony Report

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115points

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boredkitten 3 years ago

I like this one and very relatable

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread The pain. Bodies start breaking down.

hamhead , Christophe Laurent Report

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RMA 3 years ago

I have arthritis and it came as a really unpleasant revelation that it can cause random pains, in various places, so sharp that you may accidentally cry out. Plus the everyday pain, but sitting in a taxi and suddenly yelping is embarrassing.

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#28

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Forty eight here

Bills don't stop or go away. Ever.

Work sucks. That's why they pay you to do it because nobody's doing that bullsh*t for free. Think of it as a means to your life and avoid it becoming your identity.

The term "work life balance" is HR code for "We own you. You're at our disposal 24/7/365"

Nobody owes you a damn thing and ain't nobody gonna give you nothing for free. They're much more likely to try to take what you have.

If not married, we're pretty sexually promiscuous and don't always adhere to the strict rules that we put on you - except that we're generally better with birth control and usually more fastidious about STD status.

You can choose one of two paths - shi**y life now or shi**y life later. The one thing I'd change about everything is to choose the shi**y life early on. Living life all YOLO or whatever you kids say when I was in my twenties came with consequences that persisted for decades and will likely render me unable to ever retire.

Time accelerates. Forty is but a blink away. So seize the opportunity you have today because it'll be gone in an instant.

stupidlyugly , Karl Bedingfield Report

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snipergun 3 years ago

This is something every teen should read once a week on repeat.

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#29

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Metabolism does not go brrrrrrr

beefyboi6996 , Timothy Krause Report

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

yep. mine turned off like a lightswitch at 41. Poof! gone.

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#30

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You're at a time in your life when you see your friends almost every day at school. That should be cherished, because it's vastly simpler than maintaining friendships as you enter adulthood and you don't have that constant contact.

Life as an adult is change, most of it outside of your control. People change, circumstances shift...all of that work you put into your adult friendships can vanish in an instant, and you just have to adapt and move on.

dartblaze , Dan DeLuca Report

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

I had friends once upon a time. Now I live in trump country, finding someone with whom i have anything in common is just not going to happen.

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#31

Money loses value QUICKLY as you get older. Give me $1000 at 15 and I would have been in heaven buying video games and gadgets candy and all sorts of stupid nonsense. Give me $1000 at 36 and it's going towards paying off the crushing debt that comes with adulthood and car repairs that I've put off way too long and all sorts of totally un-fun things.

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SPQRBob 3 years ago

This. Sometimes I still get money as a gift from family as they would rather let me pick out something I want most for myself... --> Apparently, what I want most is lower credit card bills.

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#32

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread By the time you're 30 you are going to be lucky to see whatever close friends you have left more than a couple times a year. And it's considered normal.

tallandlanky , Helder Ribeiro Report

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AJ 3 years ago

This means you can have close friends, and they remain your closest, BESTEST friends even though you don't see each others regularly. And you can count on you can rely on them in the biggest things. Growing up is like burden lifted from one's shoulders for introverts!

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#33

You can't just quit your job if you dont like it.

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MB 3 years ago

I disagree…I spent years working a job I hated and was miserable. People have to stop putting this idea into others heads. You can leave whatever job, whenever you want, you just have to do it the right way and make sure you don’t leave yourself stranded. But their is no reason to stay at a job if your not happy with it. No way. Get the hell out as soon as you can. Work is not supposed to suck.

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#34

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You can be homeless.

Mavioso23 , Jimmy B Report

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R Carson 3 years ago

Easily unfortunately.

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#35

coming home from work and still work at home

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R Carson 3 years ago

Never ends

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#36

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You will be held accountable. No excuses, no blaming.

keltoy1549 , Widener University Delaware Law School Report

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R Carson 3 years ago

Unless you work for the government.

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#37

Money adds up quick. You see something cheap that you want as a teen and think “It’s only $5.” Yes it is only $5, but when the end of the month comes, all those “only” purchases add up really fast.

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Brandy McKay 3 years ago

I'm about to be 35 and have yet to fully grasp this concept. 😬

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#38

Waking up and just aching for non discernible reason other than having slept ‘a bit funny’.

Oh, and the 3 day hangovers that make it barely worth drinking more than a couple glasses of wine

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smugdruggler 3 years ago

How did sleeping well become a skill?

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#39

Losing your identity and sense of purpose once you graduate and enter a job that sucks up all your time.

You have no energy to pursue the hobbies or interests you once had. You're also no longer able to be the Smart Kid or the Theatre Kid or the Jock or whatever -- you're just another depressed 20-something trying to survive, playing 1 hour of a video game you'll never finish per night just to feel something in between cooking, chores, and your depressingly early bedtime.

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Patti Vance 3 years ago

the identity thing was something that i realized back in high school. i was a military brat so that meant i ended up moving/living in areas that other kids were born and raised. some of the 'townies' were so wrapped up with their position in the community - like the 'mayor's daughter' or the 'doctor's son' and acted like the rest of us needed to acknowledge they were 'special'. i called this the big fish in the little pond syndrome and always wondered how they were going to handle the real world when there would be bigger fish that could snap them up easily

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Discipline is very hard to maintain when you are lacking purpose.

When you are a teenager there’s so much you think you can achieve:

“I’ll get into that college.”

“I’ll get that degree.”

“I’ll land that cool job after.”

“I’ll date that person who will fulfill me.”

However, what happens when those things fail and you have to readjust? What if the idea of progress turns into an idea of just sustainment?

My advice to teenagers: The most important thing you need to work towards figuring out as you enter into early adulthood is your purpose. It can change over time of course, but never be without it.

MG_Scott12 , Alan Levine Report

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

I'm just trying to make it to old age without being homeless.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Everything you buy starts to own you.

Got a new car? You now have to make a monthly payment, buy insurance, fill with gas, get inspected, change the oil, apply for a street parking permit, ect.

Just bought a house? Well on top of your mortgage, insurance and property taxes you now have to: mow your lawn, clean the building, maintain all of your appliances, repair damages when they are small so you don’t have to spend as much, possibly follow HOA rules, ect.

I just wanna get drunk and play video games, but I can’t because my refrigerator broke 2 days ago, and there’s a shortage of fridges because of COVID. So I had to borrow my college aged cousins mini-fridge. So now I’m on back order for 3 weeks waiting for something I just spent $2500 on to arrive.

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Colin Matthews 3 years ago

Yeah amen.Try and keep possession s to a minimum.wish I knew that back then

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#42

Your "back up" is mostly gone. When you're a teen and screw up you can usually go to your parents to help you out of the hole you've put yourself in. As an adult that isn't there, whatever screw up is yours to dig yourself out of. Phone bill you can't pay? Ask mum for a loan (17 or 18) Phone bill you can't pay at 25 and it's an hour on the phone getting transferred to multiple people to ask for an extension which may be denied so instead of normal food you plan your meals to be plain rice or ramen for a week because an unpaid phone bill creates late fees and black spots on your credit. As an adult credit becomes more important than food for a week.

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Heather Menard 3 years ago

Rent, car payment, food for animals,then what ever I have left over pays the rest of the bills

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#43

You can't really ever "relax"

If you are just chilling, its because you deliberately carved that time for yourself or you are ignoring some things. It is complelty possible to structure your life to have down time but it takes serious effort while when you're a teenager its just there naturally.

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Kay blue 3 years ago

This is me today, I have a list as long as my arm of chores that need doing but I'm too tired to move today. Unfortunately this means that I will have even more to do tomorrow assuming I feel well enough to do it. Being an adult with a chronic illness really sucks.

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#44

40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread You can count your friends on one hand and most of those have been grandfathered in.

pikaoku , Moss Report

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jk nbt 3 years ago

you can have 20 great friends when you are 20, but you will be lucky to have one real friend when you are 29...

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#45

Beer and pizza catch up to you fast...

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Bob Belcher 3 years ago (edited)

Key here is to learn moderation. Beer and pizza once a month or so is fine. Once a week, no. Order a hamburger from somewhere? Don't get fries, get veggies. Popeyes chicken sandwich? Bring it home, toss the buns and wrap it in lettuce. Just as good. You'll find little changes help a lot more than doing some stupid fad diet.

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#46

Adult freedom and responsibilities are a double edge sword. You now can make pretty much all your own life choices, from the small to the large! You can set out and make your own destiny.

But you are also responsible for the outcome of all those choices - both good and bad. It's your life now, you don't have anyone to tell you what the right choice is. You can call friends and family for advice and there are lots of scammers out there who will tell you 110% they know the answer if you pay them.

But ultimately it is YOUR decision. You either make a choice or don't (and not choosing is still a choice) then have to live with the consequences for the rest of your life.

Even as a teen, you are present with choices as you start to get some of your own freedom.

But as an adult - yep it's all up to you, both good and bad.

You will make mistakes. You will be scared into indecision. But you should face up to hose mistakes and move on. Eventually you will have to make a choice.

But with some fore thinking, planning, hard work and a bit of dumb luck - you can hopefully steer your life in a positive direction.

And it's never too late for a second chance or to try a different direction.

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Tim Douglass 3 years ago

Oh, it definitely gets to be too late for changing directions. Try having kids. As soon as that decision is made your entire life is shaped by it. I suppose you can be a total jerk and just walk away from your children, but realistically there are lots of decisions you will make as you go into adulthood which will follow you all your life with no real options ever open because of that decision.

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#47

I make a lot of money. Far more than I did when I was a teen. Most of that money is lost in bills and taxes.

*some people are trying to poke at the phrase "a lot of money". Although, I do make a decent salary and have a great promotion potential...I'm not rich. The phrase "a lot of money" here is relative to what a teenager might make. For example, a teen making no more than $20K a year would be shocked by a $60K annual salary. It's not meant to brag.

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You kidding me 3 years ago

You would be at poverty level here in California if all you make is 60K a year. You would barely be able to pay your rent and live in the worst area and never be able to buy a house, ever!

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#48

Life is long and complicated. You can never truly get a fresh start. Things wear you down over time.

And you just get so tired. Getting excited about things is hard, and when you’re an adult and you get excited about something, there’s usually another adult in line that is ready to tear you down for it. Just because they’re shi**y and the only thing they get excited about, these days, is shi**ing on others.

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BastWren 3 years ago

The second part sounds like more of a personal issue of that person's and not what happens when you become an adult.

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40 Bitter Truths About Being An Adult That Usually Don't Cross Teens' Minds, As Pointed Out In This Viral Thread Always prepare for the worst.

Keep seeing more people that fought hard for their dream job. Now they’re miserable.

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Blarrg 3 years ago

Don't prepare for the worst, but do be careful and intentional about what will make you happy. Lots of people spend their lives working toward things that are ultimately empty.

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

Adult life comes with a lot of responsibilities and challenges, but I find this post paints a too dark picture. You can still have happiness as an adult and can find fullfillment in things you gave no thought about as a teenager.

I agree. In HS and even college I was always busy after class with essays, examns and so (and housechores). Once I started working I was sueprised of how much free time I had. Yes I needed to do more chores than before but after work I had a lot of time. And while I didnt have a lot of money I had some and independence.

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Bob Belcher 3 years ago

Agreed. I love to game and still have plenty of time to do so. My daughter likes to game now too and we play together a lot.

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Agreed. In a weird way, my sis dying when I was 21 was a huge eye-opening life-saver. She'd done all this/that/etc. to get the "right life"... and died at 26. Soooo..... I had a massive re-think, and one such was: An hour a day to goof off, no matter what. So far so good!

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CbusResident 3 years ago

Exactly, we have a ton of free time compared to people in decades past, more leisure time than any previous generation.

Rens 3 years ago

I became disabled and chronically ill at 46, from walking 4 miles a day for fun, to being in a wheelchair within a week. I've had to come to terms with the fact that there are so many things I will never do, or do again. I never appreciated my body and my health until I became ill and had to medically retire. Don't put things off like taking a course or following a dream because your life could change in an instant. I am well educated, hard working, intelligent and kind; I had a mental health breakdown, was made homeless twice through no fault of my own, and had to start my life over from scratch; it can happen to anyone.

GoddessOdd 3 years ago

I am so sorry for your troubles. I learned this too, first, when I was a little kid, and we went from comfortable middle class to homeless because my father abandoned us. Then, plenty of health crises over the years. I am now over 60, and working on getting my strength and mobility back, but it gets harder all the time. I am sending you good wishes and all good fortune from now on.

NsG 3 years ago

Yet another wake up call for how lucky and privileged I am - I'm 41 and I hardly recognise any of the disillusionment present in these posts.

AndThenICommented 3 years ago

I’m not 40 but in my 30’s and I hear you. It’s not perfect but man I don’t see age as a barrier. My partner and I even talk a lot about how at 40 we plan to switch up the hobbies and careers and just have a go at new things. Probably the same at 50

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