Posted by Alara on February 15, 2003, at 19:51:55
In reply to When do you start feeling like a grown up?, posted by Dinah on February 15, 2003, at 1:39:16
Dinah, I am 32 and sometimes feel like a 10 year-old! Most of the time I feel confident and capable when doing my work, driving the car, helping upset people and doing the grocery shopping...But there are days when I struggle to stop myself from crying. (I fear that if I ever did so at work, I'd become a babbling 5 y-o within 5 seconds flat!) I still call my father when I blow an element in the toaster or can't unclog the toilet - or even when I don't know how to handle an interpersonal situation oat work...And sometimes weeks go by when I have to call my parents EVERY DAY to offload my worries..(This must drive them crazy!)
I work with a lot of 23 year-olds and they someitimes look up to me, expecting me the answers in life because I am a bit older....But half the time I am just as clueless as they are..My lovelife is a bit of a mess and the best that I can do is to take care of myself and my cat. I can only laugh about it though. :-)Sometimes grown up obligations (like doing tax, registering the car and spending most of our time working and `behaving like responsible adults' makes us really want to go back to childhood.) Every adult feels this way, and every adult feels more mature in some arenas of life than in others. Dinah, that's totally normal!!
I just wish I could do cartwheels and go to the beach on a boogie board!!! Might do it anyway.
Being too much of an adult is boring sometimes...
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