Even with a good career and all the “adult milestones” I don’t feel like an actual adult. I feel like I’m pretending to know what I’m doing. Anyone else experience this?

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yes and No. 48.

    There was never a horizon or dividing line I crossed between youth and adult. It just happened.

    I’m still the same person I was when I was 10/20/30/40. Still like cool things, still confused about why we’re all here.

    Other than my body getting real creaky and doing all kinds of weird old things, the only real difference between youth and adult is the realization that this very thread addresses. We’re all just making it up as we go. There’s no such thing as “adult”. There’s no Council of Super-Smart People running the world.

    The only thing that makes you an adult is the realization that you have to be the change you want to see in the world. That you have to be the super-smart person running things.