Oh Grow Up Already

[rubah]

If my life were a videogame or a book these last few months, it'd definitely be a Coming of Age story.

Somehow, I've managed to find myself on a quest to learn why suddenly I've started thinking these frighteningly adult thoughts, why people want to give me frighteningly adult duties, and why I feel frighteningly ill prepared for being a frightening adult.

So I've got a question.

For you older EoFFers, did you have a defining moment where you thought 'Oh Smurf it. I'm an adult!:ooo'? Tell about those circumstances, plz.

For the younger, do you expect to encounter anything of the like? If you do, do you feel ready for it?

(my apologies for lameness I was going through the entries on my LJ tagged 'thoughts' and remembered a post where this started back in september)

[Lindy]

Yeah, I was about eight.

Goddamn I miss the childhood I never had, I'm deliberately trying to grow DOWN again and be immature, because I hate having to be responsible, sensible and mature ALL the time.

P.S. I'm hovering at a constant 50/50 level of maturity right now, bah.

[Dignified Pauper]

this sounds emo to me.



I think my junior year of highschool, once I got a car, I became an adult in my house.

Edit: I would probably share a similar look with Lindy, I hate responsibilities now.

[Lindy]

Sadly, I feel the need to take on responsibilities and lead groups because everyone else around me is an incompetant fool who can't tell their arse from their elbow.

True story.

[Levian]

i'm never going to be an adult like ever.

[Rye]

Yeah, I was about eight.

Goddamn I miss the childhood I never had, I'm deliberately trying to grow DOWN again and be immature, because I hate having to be responsible, sensible and mature ALL the time.

P.S. I'm hovering at a constant 50/50 level of maturity right now, bah.

Sums me up exactly. I was too mature when I was little. Way too mature.

[Doomie]

I was a really childish...child when I was younger, so I try and compensate for that by being too mature now. Maybe. A test told me I was 21, so I guess it isn't that bad.

[Twisted Tinkerbell]

I really should accept being an adult (I'm 19 in a few weeks) but I really don't wanna! I did have a very scary defining moment though, it was around the time my grandad had a stroke.

[Shoeberto]

It's up there in my list of fears. My parents make things too easy, I think. The real world is going to hit me hard, and I know it. I'm just trying to prepare myself for the shock.

[Madonna]

I hadn't a "defining" moment; where I crossed into adulthood is kind of blurred. I only noticed after the fact and did not consider the when or why of any import.

[Vyk]

Relax. You're gonna feel 18 for probably about 7 years maybe. But the time you're half way through your 20's it might start to sink in. But it's mostly a gradual thing. You'll feel the same when you turn 18 as you did when you were 17. Except for immature people, they'll still have some growing (mentally? emotionally?) for a couple years. I was a social misfit in highschool. So I did all my social growing at about 19. And I had a lot of catching up to do. I ended up turning really emo for a year or so. But it didn't take me long to mature past most of my peers >_> Now I'm quite mellow, and mature enough to be immature on purpose (unlike some people who that's just who they are). And that was a gradual thing as well. Having bills, a steady job, a stable mind. Eventually you can just say yeah, smurf it, I'm adult. But you have to decide that for yourself. My sister's 27 years old. Living at home with a part-time job, and still has to be woke up in the morning by mom, 'cause she's so lazy and irresponsible.

[Old Manus]

Yes.

[nik0tine]

Growing up just isn't worth it anymore.

[Mittopotahis]

Yes.

Damn it, you got in before me Beware, Old Manus sucks ideas out of your head and uses them brilliantly.

I am afraid to grow up. Because then I can't act like a child. Which I like doing, but I still don't do now. So maybe growing up wouldn't be so bad.

[Yamaneko]

You're not really an adult until you start supporting yourself entirely.