Being Adult

Jan 10, 2016 5:12 AM

thehungryvegan

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When you’re an adult, you answer the tough questions

You take care of yourself

And make sophisticated decisions

Becoming an adult means finding your hobbies

It’s a time where you learn to offer your sincerest congratulations

It’s a time to figure out the rest of your life

A time to find your way

To get your life together

Being an adult is all about putting everything you learned in school to the test

It’s about putting that experience to work

Becoming an adult is all about learning from your elders

Or…a vending machine

It’s a lot like Mario Kart

Or, you know, crossing the street

Or, you know, deleting emails

Being an adult is all about creating the perfect schedule

It’s about budgeting

About watching what you eat

But mostly it’s about doing this every single night

Being an adult means "Socks and undies for Christmas! Aww Yisss!"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't worry, you once will get too old for #19

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Saw this Buzzfeed post on Facebook a couple of days ago. Thanks for waiting before reposting.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

An a adultier adult.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I go to the doctor AND hope I die. I think I'm pretty good at adulting. Like Level 93 adults.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I can't remember the last time I went. Normally it's just a urgent care when I don't feel well. But no doctor to run tests and shit. I'm 32

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait. HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Adulting comes in stages. Like being a grub or pupa or chrysalis. I believe I will be molting next year sometime

10 years ago | Likes 298 Dislikes 2

Oh little combusken, you will be a blaziken soon

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Adulthood actually comes in one stage. SHIT!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The first one, my husband lost his job, his old high school moved back to town talking about buying a 300,000 home, brand new cars, his wife

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Can pick out any car she wants....while my husband and i are trying to keep a roof over our heads, and food in our bellies.Adulthood is hard

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thanks, Buzzfeed

10 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 4

Instead of going to a doctor, I just became a doctor. I can wait for myself now for hours, so I can tell myself what I already know.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure this was a buzzfeed article...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bouncing round the supermarket filling up the trolley then realising when I get to the till its me who's paying for it all :(

10 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

I wish we called them trolleys. We say carts. Or buggys. My mother in law calls them carriages.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Haha carriages. I like that

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

$1000 isn't a lot of money ultimately, but it's always so hard to have a spare $1000. :(

10 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Once you're paying for everything yourself, you very quickly realize that money is not to be squandered easily.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not a lot of money to have but its a lot of money to owe

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

At least we can drink

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Reading this post eating zebra cakes at a rate of 1 cake per bite. Pretty sure I have this adult thing down.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'll stick to being a kitty cat, thank you!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I work at a restaurant and when there's a problem, we frantically yell, "i need an adult!" and a manager comes running. Good times.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Remember when you got called out for being pathetic Pepperidge farms remembers

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That school one really annoys me. My school taught how to read invoices, write CVs and letters of application, and various bank bits.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and my school was hardly alone in doing it either. Maybe the US is different but PSHE is an actual class over here in the UK.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I experience a lot of this and I'm 16?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Oh, to be young, and to feel love's keen sting.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My husband walked up to me, said 'do we have plans today?' and then his whole face lit up when I said no. Married life is odd.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My family would always say "oh shit" if my girlfriend got pregnant; I can't father children.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All this made me feel like I'm doing so great at being an adult. Excuse me while I celebrate at 1:30AM by going to get ice cream and beer.

10 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 1

When I was a teenager that part of life was what I looked forward to. Now I'm 22 and in a small town where I can't even buy beer on Sunday

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I just ate a whole bunch of gummy vitamins. God damnit I am an adult and no one can stop me.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Whoa, champ. Let me be your adultier adult and tell you, that shit is dangerous. You be careful out there.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

I think I'll be okay--I only had four or five. The dose is two and there's no iron in them.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You're also much larger then you were as a kid, so it would take more to give you the same amount of needed vitamins.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But they make adult gummy vitamins! I take fiber gummies, like an elderly child!

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Buzzfeed what are you doing here? http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/adult-life-baby#.fqBAKDzDN

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is why I'm teaching my 3 monsters to actually take care of themselves. I don't care if you are 5, you will fold your own laundry.

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Do it. My mom taught me to do laundry when I was 8 or so, and I was the only person on my dorm floor who knew what they were doing.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same for me but there was eight if us kids so it was really like a cleaning army for my mom. Damn if it didn't pay off.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The other day I got really upset because a kilo of carrots went from $1.00 to $1.90 and I realized I was an adult now...

10 years ago | Likes 147 Dislikes 1

I started feeling like an adult when I was keeping track of gas prices and only buying it mid week when it was cheapest

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I got really excited because, at Christmas, I could buy 2.5kg of white potatoes for only 39p. That's like, 50c.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Milk and eggs, man. That shit goes up 10 cents and I'm like, "guess I'm not buying milk and eggs."

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

This also applies to bread

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As an American, labeling anything by the kilo immediately makes it sound like drugs.

10 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

As a South American, if you can buy a kilo of any drug, then good on you man.

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I got super excited at Christmas because I bought myself new towels... :(

10 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

I bought myself three shirts from a 2nd hand store, which I haven't done for two years.. it feels nice.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lmao, but that's adorable

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

New towels and linens are amazing. Like putting on new sheets and getting into bed naked. So good

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oh god yes, I bought myself new socks and underpants and I'm all like "FUCK YEAH, I'M COMFORTABLE".

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That's a huge price jump, is there a carrot shortage I haven't heard about?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nah, it's just that Australia finally caught up with inflation/the Aussie dollar has lost value.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But seriously. I'm 26 and I still don't know how to adult. When does this happen?

10 years ago | Likes 105 Dislikes 1

Gradually. It creeps up on you until your life is all about boring shit.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No one buys a ticket, but the bus turns up anyway.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My parents assure me that their grandparents started adulting properly around the time I was born.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My mom is 51 and has always said she still doesn't feel like an adult. So I'm really not expecting it to kick in anytime soon (I'm 29).

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

30 here. When you find out, let me know please?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Probably when you die.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

23 Here, not sure.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm 28 and expecting my second baby. I still have no idea how to adult.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It doesn't just happen. You have to make it happen. But it happens when you least expect. Adulting may cause flatulence. Consult your doctor

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm 30 and still haven't got a clue. Only thing I've noticed is that everybody's faking they know something.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I watched my wife and daughter in bed and wondered who they were and who let me into their hospital room. Now I have a teenager. Not yet.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think we all have one adult thing we do well. And 90 we dont. If we all gather together we make 1 adult and 90 children.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One adult and about four billion children. Plus another couple of billion children children.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

29 here, in 3 years you'll still have no idea

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you're still alive, you're doing fine.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

as a 29 year old some time next week....

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It happens when you have no other choice but to adult up.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's already happening. The mitochondria has always been the powerhouse of the cell.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

38yo, the boss at work, and no clue what I'm doing.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I believe you become an adult when one of your parents die......morbid, but that's when it happened to me.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As a 30 year old whose dad died when I was 16-ish.. nah, I still don't have a sodding clue.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's because it usually means you're the next in line to die in your family. That's what it is to be adulted.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I'm 55. I'll let you know if/when I get there.

10 years ago | Likes 94 Dislikes 1

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10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for a fellow geezer.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well shit...

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thank you. I appreciate that.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I mean, I could offer you advice, but I probably couldn't tell you anything you don't already know. Just "fake it til you make it".

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Any advice is always welcome. But definitely just faking it and hoping to survive.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I guess the big thing is to take your job seriously, whatever it is. Dedication and hard work always pay off. That you can't fake.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Came here to comment about being 37 in a week and still not knowing... I'm screwed aren't I.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nah, you've got plenty of time...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm 27 and have been married for 3 years. Between me and my husband, we make a little over one adult.

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Oh, same here. And since few days I'm scared we might made a tiny human too. Now even combined adulting seems terrifying again. Help.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you April and Andy?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Ohhh yeah.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!

10 years ago | Likes 159 Dislikes 11

School

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ironically, I have never made money off of my knowledge of that fact.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I get so sick of this fucking bullshit joke. You know who taught me about money and taxes? My mom and dad. Schools aren't responsible for

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

teaching your goddamned child everything about the world. Besides, most schools have a personal finance class. Also, taxes are pretty easy.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In the future they will be the powercell of the house!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm finally relevant!!

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

MIDICHLORIANS ARE THE POWERHOUSE OF THE JEDI

10 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

You take that back you scruffy looking nerf-herder

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

ARE, GOD DAMMIT!

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I know you're right, but #9

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it is being spread wrong everywhere, so?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*wants to prove you wrong. Googled* Actually is correct. Mitochondrion is singular. Mitochondrioa is plural. Learn something new everyday.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

every time I see it, i correct it. Just hope to maybe enlighten a few people

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Worked at least once

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