20 surprises of adulthood we weren't prepared for

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Some of the things from adulthood will make you regret that you wanted to grow up as quickly as possible as a child.

1. Losing friends is easy, but finding friends is difficult

Stories about ten classmates who were friends before their gray hair will most likely remain only in films. At one not-so-wonderful moment, you will find that you have lost contact with many of those with whom you have shared your most intimate. And all new friends are your colleagues. Because in adulthood, you have neither the time nor the desire to get involved in adventures, since you are generally tired of people.

2. You will have to develop a system of assessing yourself

As a child, you get used to the fact that there is always a moderator of your behavior next to you. The teacher gives marks, the parents give a candy or a belt. And you learn to balance between personal interests and attempts to please an adult, but at the same time you see a framework into which, if something happens, you can return.

In adulthood, there will be much less landmarks and an internal rating system will have to be developed. For some actions, no one will praise or scold you, and you yourself must know what is acceptable and what is not in order to continue to respect yourself.

3. The fear of doctors does not go away with age

You used to be afraid of the doctor because he looked in your mouth and gave you a painful injection. Over the years, the fear has not gone away, there are simply more reasons for panic.

4. The body will betray your age

From the point of view of social life, 25 is the new 18, at 30 life is just beginning, and the language does not dare to call sixty-year-olds old men and women. But your body will think differently. One day - and quite early - you will feel that something is wrong with him. In another couple of years, you will know for sure what is wrong with him, and realize that it will only get worse. You will have a first-aid kit with medicines for all occasions, and you will know exactly where your compulsory medical insurance policy is.

5. Your metabolism will change

It doesn't matter how much you could eat and not gain weight: a handful or a bucket. As you age, you will have to eat less to maintain weight because your metabolism will slow down.

6. It is impossible to feel old enough

The argument “when I become an adult” will never lose its relevance, just one day it will be embarrassing to say it out loud. No miracle will happen on the day you turn 18, 21, 30 years old. It's just that one day you will find yourself in a difficult situation, decide to ask adults for help and you will understand that the most adult here is you.

7. Even a dream job is first and foremost a job

The things you love will sometimes annoy you, and so will work. The dream job will be labor intensive and time consuming. Great work differs from just work in that at least sometimes you will feel happy thinking about what you are doing.

8. People will not start to meddle in your life less

The hopes that with age they will finally stop teaching you will not come true. Everyone around you will still think that they know better how you live. Only if earlier it was enough to study well for approval and not dye your hair green, now the list of public expectations will not fit in a notebook of 48 sheets. At the very least, people will think that for some reason you are interested in knowing their opinion.

9. You will find gaps in technical literacy

You may be surprised as much as you like that parents have not learned how to write SMS, exactly until you find that you yourself have lagged behind the teenagers by a few steps. After all, why master a new technology if the old one works great?

10. You will dream of solitude

A little bit of adulthood, and a fun vacation in Ibiza will no longer be a priority in your vacation plans. Your choice is a remote village somewhere in the forests of Finland, or better on the moon, and that there is no mobile connection.

11. You realize that everyone is mortal

None of your relatives bear the surname MacLeod, so you always understood that your parents will die sooner or later, and your life will end one day. But with age, this fact passes from the field of knowledge into a clearly recognized inevitability. You will condole with friends, receive messages about the death of classmates, read the news and know that any moment in your life can be the last.

12. Successful pop and football stars are younger than you

In many professions, even 13 is the age when it’s too late to start. But you kept secretly hoping that a model scout would meet you on the street and be speechless with beauty, or that your hobby for yard football would grow into something more. And then you suddenly discover that even the controversial TV show participants are younger than you, not to mention the real rising stars.

13. Good grades in school and university do not guarantee a successful career

Red covers of educational documents do not guarantee anything at all. Only government agencies will look at your diploma, because they have a strictly regulated recruitment procedure. In commercial companies, it is more important to have an up-to-date set of skills and knowledge. And it is likely that yesterday's poor students will lead excellent students, and not out of pull, but because they really know better what to do.

14. You can't buy everything

As a child, it seems that if your parents' money were in your pocket, you would buy yourself a plush puppy, a model of a tank, and fashionable jeans, and a computer of the latest model, and in general whatever you want. But, firstly, with age you will realize that you simply do not have enough for everything. Secondly, you no longer need a plush puppy and a tank model.

15. You can eat sweets for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but you won't

Sweets are inexpensive pleasure. They are more readily available than vegetables or quality meat. But you will often eat chicken with buckwheat instead of chocolate, because now you know everything about calories and the effect of excess weight on health.

16. You can throw out ice cream because it doesn't taste good

Even your favorite delicacies will be divided into tasty and non-tasty for you. For complete happiness, just ice cream is no longer enough for you, you need the same.

17. Love is not necessarily one and for life

Parting with your first love will be very difficult for you. Most likely, even decide that you will not experience such strong feelings anymore. However, you will fall in love again and feel very happy.

18. Birthday is not such a fun holiday

Even if you do not experience any complexes about the inevitable growing up and openly name your age, there will be dozens of people around who can darken any holiday. They will say what it was time to do in your years, and what is now forbidden, joke about old wrinkles and gray hair, hint at a quick walk towards the cemetery. And when you say that you can figure it out for yourself whether to wear a mini-skirt after 25 years and whether to ride a bike after 40, you will be considered a boor. Therefore, the birthday will be primarily a holiday of unpleasant communications.

19. You can stay without a family for a long time and not suffer from it

In childhood, it seems that 25 years is a deep old age and by this time you need to start a family and have children. At the same time, at almost any age, you may find that you have not done this and are not suffering.

20. Parents' bad predictions won't come true

Your life will be at least normal: the apartment will not be overgrown with dirt, you will find a normal job and be able to be responsible.