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Topic	Life at 28 is not what I thought it'd be.
ParanoidObsessive 09/04/17 7:04:21 PM #20:	TheCyborgNinja posted... 28 was the first year I felt like a proper adult, honestly. darkknight109 posted... Maybe it was just me, but I kinda figured that there would be some gate that you passed through where it's just like "congrats, you're an adult now!", but nothing like that really happens - everything is gradual. I'm 40 and I still don't feel like a proper adult. Because honestly, while I've got most of the usual adult responsibilities, and do mostly adult things, and - apart from not being married or having kids - check off most of the "adult" boxes, on some level I'm still the same person who enjoyed video games, comic books, and all sorts of other "childish" things as a kid. I've become an adult, but culture has shifted enough that an "adult" now doesn't really fit the mold of what an "adult" was when I was growing up, which is what shaped my perception of adulthood. So I sort of have this weird self-image in my head. Which isn't helped by the times when I'm interacting with older family members (who I'm convinced all still see me as an eternal 5-year old), or the older family members of some of my friends, or often just elderly people in general. On some level a lot of the little kid deference and sense of submission comes into play in ways it doesn't if I'm meeting someone my age or relating to my friends who all mostly sort of fall into the same boat I do. It also isn't helped by the fact that pop culture as a whole has a sort of "infantilized" feel to it, where a lot of the things I considered "kid's stuff" as a kid are just being accepted as completely normal (ie, the slow inexorable creep of "geek culture"). Comic book movies and shows, constant video game content, the average age of gamers creeping up into the 30s at this point, etc - this is not the adulthood I expected when I was 12. I assume that, even if I live to be 80, I'll probably never feel like a "real" adult. On some level it just feels more like I'm a kid in an adult body doing adult things and being responsible and getting aches and pains and becoming a crotchety old curmudgeon but still never really crossing some qualitative line where I transform into a full adult. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:886024410] in Life at 28... [t:75740740]...</cite> <quote><cite>TheCyborgNinja posted...</cite> <quote>28 was the first year I felt like a proper adult, honestly.</quote> <cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>Maybe it was just me, but I kinda figured that there would be some gate that you passed through where it's just like "congrats, you're an adult now!", but nothing like that really happens - everything is gradual.</quote> I'm 40 and I still don't feel like a proper adult. Because honestly, while I've got most of the usual adult responsibilities, and do mostly adult things, and - apart from not being married or having kids - check off most of the "adult" boxes, on some level I'm still the same person who enjoyed video games, comic books, and all sorts of other "childish" things as a kid. I've become an adult, but culture has shifted enough that an "adult" now doesn't really fit the mold of what an "adult" was when I was growing up, which is what shaped my perception of adulthood. So I sort of have this weird self-image in my head. Which isn't helped by the times when I'm interacting with older family members (who I'm convinced all still see me as an eternal 5-year old), or the older family members of some of my friends, or often just elderly people in general. On some level a lot of the little kid deference and sense of submission comes into play in ways it doesn't if I'm meeting someone my age or relating to my friends who all mostly sort of fall into the same boat I do. It also isn't helped by the fact that pop culture as a whole has a sort of "infantilized" feel to it, where a lot of the things I considered "kid's stuff" as a kid are just being accepted as completely normal (ie, the slow inexorable creep of "geek culture"). Comic book movies and shows, constant video game content, the average age of gamers creeping up into the 30s at this point, etc - this is not the adulthood I expected when I was 12. I assume that, even if I live to be 80, I'll probably never feel like a "real" adult. On some level it just feels more like I'm a kid in an adult body doing adult things and being responsible and getting aches and pains and becoming a crotchety old curmudgeon but still never really crossing some qualitative line where I transform into a full adult. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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