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What I didn't realize about adulthood:
- Always asking for a more adult adult. (Help, I still feel like a kid.)
- How many bags you end up accumulating in your lifetime. (I have so many plastic, paper, tote bags, and other kinds of bags.)
- Not wanting kids is a completely normal feeling. (Also seems to be common amongst the people I'm around.)
- Endless cycles of keeping the kitchen clean mainly. (So many crumbs.)
- How many phone calls you end up making to get things done. (Doctor one, specialist two, politician three.)
- A lot of password sharing that is done with your partner/family/friends. (Jokingly, does anyone have peacock?)
- Forever figuring out what to eat. (Am I really in a cereal mood or do I just want it because it's right there?)
- Endlessly being disappointed in politics and the state of the world. (Oh the Supreme Court, you're totally apolitical.)
- Community is everywhere, you just have to be willing to go out there and find it. (It's still pretty scary and kind of tiring putting myself out there.)
- How everything just ends up repeating itself over and over again. (Hello, I'm so and so and I'm from Utah, and no I am not a Mormon.)
- Making friends is hard, maintaining them is even harder. (There isn't a common factor of school at this point.)
- Planning things takes a minimum of a month in advance. (Probably a bit different for everyone, but that's been true for me for all of my various friend groups so far.)
- How you tell the same story over and over again to different groups of people. (I remember that one time...)
- How you slowly become a bit like your parents in a way. (Why yes I'm aware that I also have organized piles everywhere, much like my dad.)
- The same complaints that fall out of my mouth. (Oh Seattle drivers, please follow the fudging road signs and lines on the road!)
- There is no one size fits all. (Whether it's clothes or skincare advice or anything else in between.)
- Some old dogs really do not want to learn new tricks. (Not just talking about actual dogs either.)
- A lot of people actually don't know how to sincerely apologize. (Saying, it's just a joke isn't an apology nor is getting out the ukelele to sing about it.)
- Water is the ultimate adult drink. (I'm still terrible at staying hydrated though.)
- How important art and the humanities are and how it's everywhere in life. (The billboards, websites, movies, books, and such doesn't become that from ai btw.)
- The oh-my-gosh-I-haven't-seen-you-in-forever-we-should-totally-hang-out-soon. And some/most of the time that doesn't actually happen. (A lot of words, not enough action, and I admit some of it is my fault too.)
- Learning how to be okay with both loss and change. (If that didn't happen, I would have never grown up.)
- How your childhood affects your whole life. (A thought that I'm very much aware of as I live my day-to-day life.)
- How your parents (and really everyone) also didn't know shit and how they're figuring it out one day at a time too.
