How does that means that you're an adult? You arrange furniture based on a lot of factors.
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Waking up at 7 on a Saturday for no fucking reason
I wake up at 5:30 on Saturday because it's the best time to be awake
You empty the dishwasher immediately, as it is the only time during the day you have the time to do it.
You wash your sheets, because of the calendar notification popping up.
you vacuum the flat on saturday at 8 AM, as that is the time to vacuum the flat in your planner.
The most exciting thing in my life right now is the spreadsheet I just made to track chores.
My budgeting spreadsheet is a delight
My spreadsheet planning spreadsheet is recursive.
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Buying and cooking your own food. Reading the nutritional info on labels.
Taking responsibility for your own actions.
Not just mistakes, but being proactive about positive things without needing to be prompted.
A bit of both for me. Whenever I dropped a bollock in work or whereever, my head used to go down and I'd be waiting for the hairdryer treatment like I was waiting outside the headmaster's office.
Now, if some cockwomble decides to mass-email someone with a passive aggressive email about "could the person who..." and it's quite clearly my mistake, I take great pleasure in absolutely owning it, smashing that reply-all button, and explaining in painful detail how yes it was my fuck up; yes I did do it with good intentions but hey things go sideways sometimes; and yes abso-fucking-lutely thank you for your shitty email that has had all the effect of a silent fart.
I think the best part of adulting is that you can make no mistakes and still lose (yeah Picard boiiii), and realising that nobody's going to care about it in a week's time.
I'd point out that taking responsibility for your actions doesn't necessarily mean fixing them on your own.
It's often more difficult (and more adult) to acknowledge that you've dug a hole for yourself that you can't escape from on your own and ask for help.
Saying this as the parent of young adult children that are adulting well, but still need to ask for help. Also as the old adult child of my parents who must still force himself to ask them for help.
Getting a new kitchen appliance is exciting. I was so amazed when I first got an air fryer. Also, getting socks as a gift is pretty good.
Problem with the socks is that I also just enjoy getting myself socks, so now I own an absurd amount of socks
Bombas are a party on my feet
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Being able to just go and buy coconut bread without having to ask my parents and them telling me: "Only if you put it on your bread"
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Realizing capitalism sorta sucks
Insert Winston Churchill quote here.
I posted a gif of Ray Liotta laughing in Goodfellas a few days ago. Someone replied telling me the gif was perfect, and asking what was it from?
Oh shit, I think that was me on my feddit account.
I'm 40 years young, I was just never into Mafia films. Still never seen Scarface.
Skip Scarface, I'll give you a quick synopsis. Robert De Niro sells cocaine, business is booming, life is great, he's the best and smartest criminal in history, what a good life! I guess on top of selling all the coke he should also be doing all the coke, wow, this is even better than before! He's a genius! Oh shit, the feds found out about his operation, no problem he's a badass, he'll just take em' all it with his AK! Oh, wow that plan did not go well at all... The end.
Now watch Goodfellas instead. And try to figure out if any of the characters (including the narrator) are "good guys".
Cheers for the concise recap, and will do with Goodfellas!
The wiry black hair that grows halfway up the length of my penis for some reason
When you see your parents as people and stop blaming them for everything.
Also when you realise that not only do they not know everything, they actually know close to nothing.
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You wash all your dinner dishes before you go to bed.
basically means you can watch adult movies and commit this thing called adultery. ezpz.
kidding aside, i think a good sign for me is following through with my decisions, and, if i decided not to, acknowledge my mistake and learn from it.
Sounds mundane but a few days ago, for the first time I bought myself a jacket. I am 28. My grandma loves to gift clothes for christmas especially stuff like jackets, so I didn't really need to buy one until now. On the way back from the shop I felt weirdly adult. I bought most of my other clothes myself for around 10 years, but never a jacket
Owning a proper lawn-momer like the one my dad had. A proper petrol, cylinder mower like this one:
I bought a refurbished on from eBay. Sadly my lawn is too shitty and bumpy to use it, so I just use a Honda IZY which does a perfectly good job but it's not like the one my dad had.
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Starting to remember the good reasons why you DIDN'T like something in the past and trusting your past judgment.
Coming around and disagreeing with your younger self hits pretty hard
That happens first, then one more time you will be faced with the same choice, and you will remember that happened and that you were already wiser once.
You start to wonder, “when am I going to feel like an adult?”
When I got a well-paying job, earning me about 10 times as much as I did while working as a teaching assistant at uni. I realized I could afford more than renting a student apartment and cheap food. Buying furniture, an apartment, having kids, tech toys. A car.
Makes me feel independent and in control of my life, I guess.
For me it was the moment I bought my first lawnmower.
Not as important as what has already been said but actually making a call when you really need something done. You'd be impressed how much more quickly your problems can get fixed when you talk to a human being.