Why didn’t they tell us adulthood sucks?

If we trust popular wisdom: “It's good where we are not.” We could end this article here, but we will not stop with this fact!

My personal wisdom is, “Being an adult is hard. Period.”

Why didn't anyone say that when I was a kid? Why?

When you're a kid, you praise the people who raise you. You listen to their opinions (though you think you're right, of course.) But!

Why didn't anyone say that parents are just as clueless about how to live their lives and what to do as we are, even though we are children.

The only difference is that parents have MORE experience. And that's the end of it (I can't help but make a joke about Mac's rebranding, and their marketer who came up with that “wildly cool” name. I doubt it's an accident though. I guess they really do not realize the absurdity of the name... But okay, let's leave it at that).

As a little kid, you're a big believer in “being an adult is cool.” Oh, yeah, right. “You can go out as much as you want, eat whatever you want, and play comp all day long.”

Ohoho! Childish naivety...

In reality: you don't go for a walk because you don't want to and don't have time, you don't eat what you want because you're afraid of getting healthy/getting pimples on your face/trainer doesn't allow it, and in the computer all you do is work.

Which begs the question:

Why didn't anyone say that adults have more dilemmas than a child?

Who in children's brains prescribes the postulate: “I want to be an adult sooner!”. Who???

Nobody, of course. Children see that adults enjoy so-called “privileges”, the main of which is that adults are not told what to do (well, we know that in reality this is rarely the case...), they can go to bed at whatever time they want, drink beer and drive a car. And, fortunately or unfortunately, all of the above are forbidden when you're a kid. And when something is forbidden to us, oh, how we want it. Forbidden fruit is sweet.

Why didn't anyone say that adulthood comes with responsibility?

Being an adult isn't just about “doing what you want to do.” Adults realize that, they're past the “doing what you want to do (yeah, yeah, of course)” stage. And now they want to throw off this load of responsibility and feel again carefree child, when everything was easier and protected. Because then parents carried the burden of responsibility not only for themselves, but also for you when you were a child.

And what are we left with in the end? I think we should live today. Childhood is a wonderful carefree time, but it's just one of life's stages that you can't get back. The paradox of growing up is that we’re all desperate to become adults as children, only to look back wistfully when we get there. What a cruel joke life plays on us, doesn’t it? Yet, maybe that’s the beauty of it—appreciating each stage only when it’s behind us.

You can only keep the memories in your memory and carry them through your adult life...).