Thursday, October 1, 2020

Total Downsides About Being An Adult


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the various downsides of being an adult that teenagers don't realize. It's funny, when we're younger we can give ourselves over to this notion that when we grow up everything's going to be a whole lot better; but then you get there, and it's just a new world of unforeseen responsibilities. Suddenly, you find yourself craving the days of your youth when all you had to worry about was getting to bed at a reasonable time for school the next morning. If that. 

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Text - LeicaM6guy • 5h 1 Award One day your body will betray you. Reply 1 3.5k ...

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Text - ecitruoc • 5h 8 Awards A $1000 pay check isn't nearly as exciting as an adult. Reply 30.4k ...

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Text - GiraffeMother • 5h 9 Awards There's never enough time for all the things you need to do. Definitely not enough time for the things you want to do. Reply 12.4k ...

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Text - TinyBig_JarOfPickles • 5h 2 Awards The repetition makes you lose time. Having the same job, workout regimen, schedule in general makes days blend into one another

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Text - mswoodie • 5h 4 Awards When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens, there's no one else to deal with it. Plugged toilet? You gotta clear it. Car outta gas? You gotta fill it. Run out of clean undies? You gotta do laundry. From small things to massive things, there's no one to make it go away but you. Reply 1 5.0k ...

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Text - soundecember • 6h 1 Award That ordering food is actually expensive and your parents weren't lying to you. Reply 14.2k ...

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Text - HilariousDisaster • 5h 3 Awards Being lonely. Making friends as an adult is difficult, sometimes verging on impossible. You don't see people in your age group who are doing the same things you are every day anymore. Reply 7.7k ...

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Text - MG_Scott12 • 6h 4 Awards Discipline is very hard to maintain when you are lacking purpose. When you are a teenager there's so much you think you can achieve: "I'll get into that college." "I'll get that degree." "I'll land that cool job after." "I'll date that person who will fulfill me." But what happens when those things fail. And you have to readjust. And the idea of progress turns into an idea of just a sustainment? My advice to teenagers as you enter adulthood. The most important thi

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Text - MontiBurns • 5h The importance and scarcity of time. Your "you time" gets seriously reduced as you get older and your other responsibilities mount up. Tused to think that spending half an hour cleaning 3 times a week was the worst thing ever. Now I spend about an hour cleaning pretty much every day. Between work, maintaining a house, and raising kids, the amount of you time gets reduced to.minutes a day. Anything else you want to do means sacrificing sleep. The other thing is how true "ti

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Text - irishamerican • 5h 14 Awards You can do whatever you want, but most of the time you either have commitments that prevent it, or you can't afford it. Reply 28.6k ...

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Text - decalime • 5h 4 Awards It's really annoying how much time is involved with food. As a teenager you don't really have to think about food much, but as an adult you have to shop for food and prepare it. You can eat at a restaurant, but that will get old after awhile assuming you can afford frequent dining out. Reply 1 16.7k ...

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Text - MelG146 • 6h Planning dinner every damn night. Reply 969 ...

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Text - Hollowman212 • 5h 3 14 Awards You are always cleaning the kitchen Reply 26.4k ...

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Text - lightskinkanye • 6h 2 Awards You come home from work and you're tired and if you don't feel like making dinner, then you're not eating dinner. Reply 11.9k ...

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Text - Hemenucha • 6h 2 Awards For me it's watching my parents get old. As a teenager I thought they were all about keeping me restricted and controlled. Now I realize they're just two people who never had a kid before, did the best they knew how, and fucked up at times like all other humans on the planet. I never realized how much I needed them emotionally until I saw my father through his open heart surgery, and saw Parkinson's take my mother's independence. So here I am still feeling like a t

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Text - keltoy1549 · 6h You will be held accountable. No excuses, no blaming. Reply 971 ...

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Text - mejlord • 5h Dental care. It's so damn expensive if you let your teeth degrade. Please floss my dudes. Reply 430 ...

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Text - Pontus_Pilates • 6h You don't fundamentally change, you are still you, even if you are older. It's the same you, you just need to survive in the adult world. You don't gain adult powers, you just have to do adult things. Reply 1.1k ...

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Text - KarmaPharmacy • 5h Life is long and complicated. You can never truly get a fresh start. Things wear you down over time. And you just get so tired. Getting excited about things is hard, and when you're an adult and you get excited about something, there's usually another adult in line that is ready to tear you down for it. Just because they're shitty and the only thing they get excited about, these days, is shitting on others. Reply 242 ...

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Text - imuncomfy5 • 5h Your "back up" is mostly gone. When you're a teen and screw up you can usually go to your parents to help you out of the hole you've put yourself in. As an adult that isn't there, whatever screw up is yours to dig yourself out of. Phone bill you can't pay? Ask mum for a loan (17 or 18) Phone bill you can't pay at 25 and it's an hour on the phone getting transferred to multiple people to ask for an extension which may be denied so instead of normal food you plan your meals

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Text - magicatom_87 • 5h Forgetting your age is a real problem. The only people who remind me how old I am are my kids, and i often have to double check. I used to ask my parents how old they were and they always "cant remember" or said "21" and it confused me. I get it now. Reply 816 ...

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Text - AmericanExpat76 • 6h 2 Awards You know all those things you thought you would do when you were out on your own? They cost money, and you have to work for it... Reply 10.6k ...

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Text - look_for_the_helpers • 5h Waking up and just aching for non discernible reason other than having slept 'a bit funny'. Oh, and the 3 day hangovers that make it barely worth drinking more than a couple glasses of wine Reply 203 ...

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Text - stupidlyugly • 5h Forty eight here Bills don't stop or go away. Ever. Work sucks. That's why they pay you to do it because nobody's doing that bullshit for free. Think of it as a means to your life and avoid it becoming your identity. The term "work life balance" is HR code for "We own you. You're at our disposal 24/7/365" Nobody owes you a damn thing and ain't nobody gonna give you nothing for free. They're much more likely to try to take what you have. If not married, we're pretty sexua

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Text - MrsTurnPage • 5h You have to pick and/or make every meal you eat for the rest of your life. It is not as flippant as you may think. Reply 1 23 ...

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Text - FormerSuggestion8 • 5h 1. Making your parents proud is important, but do not put your parents wants above your own. Going through college is important, but realizing the purpose behind going is even more important to your destiny. 2. Ahh, you're young, you have plenty of time to figure it out. No you do not, and this is bad advice teenagers are given all the time. We're told this even at 18–19 we have plenty of time to decide what we want to do. Once you graduate from high school, becomin

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Text - decidarius • 4h 2 O 3 Awards The power structures you hate as a teenager are real, and far more entrenched than you think. As an adult, challenging power and making changes in the world is revealed to be almost impossible. The best most people can hope for is to live more or less outside of the system, or else to band together and dedicate your life to change, and maybe move the needle by a tiny amount. Big changes, like the legalization of gay marriage, are the result of hundreds of thou

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Text - SmokeyFlannel • 6h 3 Awards When all the cliches that used to piss you off start making sense and meaning something, but you can't explain it to younger people because they haven't lived that life experience yet. Reply 1 4.6k ...

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Text - BigMilko • 6h Always prepare for the worst. Keep seeing more people that fought hard for their dream job. Now they're miserable. Reply 577 ...

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Text - InternetKidsAreMean • 5h Being an adult is basically being a teenager, except you're finally in charge of your own life and decisions. I hated being a child / teenager. I love being an adult. Reply 298 ...

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Text - whycantifindmyname • 5h Even though February is the shortest month, the rent is still the same Reply 674 ...

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