Do you feel like an adult?

Do you feel like an adult? Anonymous 05/05/2025, 00:10:52 No.251168

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Real talk: Do you actually feel like you're an adult now?
I'm 27 years old and I own a house and pay bills and work, but I still feel like I'm a kid fresh out of highschool playing the part of an adult but not being genuine. None of this feels real to me. I find myself bewildered and frankly disgusted by the complexities and hypocrisies of "adult life." I listen to people who just talk about their jobs or sports and find it incredibly boring. Maybe these people are just well adapted to being adults and I am the weird one. Why is it that I still mentally consider myself a kid when I talk to older people?

It seems that a large percentage of my generation feels ill at ease with coming of age. Are we all just immature? Are the boomers right about Gen Z and even Millennials? How did this happen?
I need to talk to more boomers and figure out if they felt or even feel the same way about being adults. What if everyone is just pretending and we've all been putting on an act for generations? 
If that's the case, why have we not created a society where being an adult is in line with our natural dispositions, and thus this problem wouldn't happen? Or, if this is something that just affects our generation(s), what is fucking up society so much that we feel like lost children way after 18?

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Anonymous 05/05/2025, 00:26:45 No.251171

A lot of members of the younger generations were never really permitted to grow up. You mature when you take on responsibility for things (which also necessarily entails having power/control over them).
But the young have been pretty systematically locked out of positions of real influence. The olds keep an iron grip on most of that.
The other aspect is that a lot of maturity arises out of necessity when you're responsible to/for other people--particularly your wife/children. Family formation is so commonly delayed, or in many cases never even happens, that a lot of people are missing the growth and maturation that comes with it.

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Anonymous 05/05/2025, 00:35:37 No.251174

>>251171
As a non-family haver myself, I can see that.

Anonymous 05/05/2025, 00:36:25 No.251175

>>251168 (OP) 
We are always mentally children, evolution had no need of making the mental status of an adult as of yet

Anonymous 05/05/2025, 01:09:13 No.251176

>>251168 (OP) 
the fuck does liking sports or not have to do with adulthood? i felt like an adult since 14 or so, 'pak wheels

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Anonymous 05/05/2025, 01:11:51 No.251177

>An adult
>Normal
I don't know what any of this means.

Anonymous 05/05/2025, 08:55:15 No.251198

>>251176
No idea, tbh. It's just that 45% of other adults I know are obsessed with this and talk non-stop about it. Another 45% or so talk incessantly about their job. Only around 10% are not insufferable. 

> i felt like an adult since 14 or so
How does it feel?

/b/ - Random

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