No Stupid Questions

Depends on the point of view I'd say.

• I pay bills
• I deal with requirements and assumptions the society puts on me as a grown-up citizen who brings better tomorrow closer through hard work
• I deal with hardships of my life through thinking, writing about them, cooperation, diplomacy, listening and discussing even difficult topics - also within my relationships
• I embrace the consequences that my actions may bring
• I try to rationalize my thoughts of the world
• i try to be a decent example to kids and other folks

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• I'm goofy, playful and childlike (you should see my behavior with my girlfriend)!
• I enjoy small, "nonsense" things and they cheer me easily up
• I'm generally relaxed of life
• I get easily (over-)excited
• I am an energetic person
• People assume I'm younger via my habitus

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So I guess I am and am not, in certain ways.

I stopped getting older after graduating college.

If it wasn’t for my passport - and some aches and pains - I’d still think I’m 15.

My family says your an adult the day you enjoy buying adult things. I just recently bought some good knives and glass food storage containers. I was super excited when they arrived. Video games and other fun things are exciting to buy myself but some good knives were next level.

Yeah, but only because my joints hurt if I do anything remotely exertion related. It's less that I feel like an adult, more like I feel old.

I work in a school. I mostly talk like one and people bought it. The kids...they know...

Solid NO, I'm over 35 too...

I sure don't, constantly feel like I'm driving a car with feet that don't touch the pedals. Luckily I've got one hell of a community around me, and although the town's nickname is Shitshow USA we seem to make it work.

I feel like an adult. I'm in my 30s. But i got to make my own definition of adult. Really it's not so much not feeling like an adult, it's realizing none of the adults really know what they are doing.

I am constantly doing things that make me feel more adult. Like at some point I will have done enough of these things to be an actual adult.

Feeling like an actual adult is feeling the way you always have, but going to bed earlier and waking up with a pressing need to pee, but having to oil your joints like the tin man before you can move.

I’ve always thought the measure of being an adult is when you being to like mustard.

Funnily enough, I do feel like an adult, mostly because I've been aware enough for long enough that everyone else is making it up as they go, that I can sense when people are on their bullshit and navigate it pretty effectively.

Also I'm making a lot of decisions that will hopefully insulate me from the consequences of my inevitable failure, but I hold no delusions that the safety net will ever be perfect or even good, or that some arbitrary amount of austerity would have bought me a house at this point, so I don't starve myself of the little pleasures in the moment - today is the rainy day. I use my PTO, I get a little treat every once in a while, and I make myself as comfortable as I can. My life satisfaction has increased drastically with that in mind.

Define Adult.

My personal definition is "A child with responsibilities"

This means you don't have to feel like an adult to be one.

If you really look past the facade of humanity, that's really all we are.

And my definition of a teenager is really just "A hormonal child"

Lastly a manchild is "An adult that shirks and refuses to act like he has responsibilities, while also whining about them"

It's like the horizon of ignorance in science. The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

I think the issue is people equate "feeling adult" with feeling confident, responsible, agential, nomic, or otherwise whole. When in reality the only assurance is that you'll get older.

I was challenged about this subject not too long ago and thought a lot about how do I define adult? In my analysis and perspective, what adult really means in a meaningful applicable way is:

Being an adult is being in control of your life

I think that is why the feeling of the title is so widely experienced. Fortunately, the basis for this is not you, per se, it's how we got here as a collective. In my estimation we are encouraged not to be in charge of our own lives.

There is bravery in facing ugly truths and thus begets for seed for growing. It is actually neccessay. Hang in there, perservere, you are magical!

"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with"

"Adversity builds muscle, adversity builds strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success"

Hard Times Create Hard Men

I suspect that feeling like an adult is what happens when you start to be less creative over time and get used to it.