" The amount of cardboard boxes you somehow have to deal with ! "
Recently,u/Djenah-maskedr/AskReddit, “What’s an adult problem nobody prepared you for?” So we thought we’d share some of the top results.
1.“I was lectured a thousand times about friends peer pressuring me into drugs. Nobody prepared me for friends peer pressuring me into helping them move.”
– PhreedomPhighter
2.“No longer a set path. No more going to school, graduating two years later then moving on to college, university, etc. It used to be so easy now I gotta create my own timelines, goals, etc.”
– brbeatingclouds
3.“Being an adult is just Googling ‘is this normal’ and hoping the answer doesn’t cost money.”
– oyeterror
4.“The slow realisation that all the adults you thought had their shit together, do in fact not have their shit together, either emotionally or financially. The amount of ‘adults’ I encounter who are all over the place is astounding.”
– Lula_Love3
5.“You could be smarter, more educated, better looking and more charismatic than the other person. But still that other person has a better salary than you because he/she happens to know the right people.”
– Tszemix
6.“Two people in love can hurt each without either of them doing anything wrong.”
– Artsy_traveller_82
7.“The nonstop bills.”
– BeckyRedxx
8.“Constant pain. Just aches.”
– savessh
9.“Choking on my own saliva mid speech… I am seriously becoming an old man…”
– AHCC - IG
10.“That moment when you realise you’re the same age as your mom was in your childhood photos, but you feel nowhere near as put-together as she seemed back then. Really hits different.”
– SlutyNbeautiful
11.“Non stop chores. If it’s not laundry it’s dishes. If it’s not dishes it’s mopping, if it’s not mopping it’s fixing something, etc.”
– Chicka - boom90
12.“What menopause would be like. When I was a kid in health class, it was basically explained as you’re older, you stop having periods and that’s menopause. No one explained perimenopause to me, what the symptoms were and how long it can potentially last. No one told me you need to go 12 months before you’re officially in post menopause. It would have been helpful to have known some of this stuff.”
– Mierin25
13.“When you’re a kid and you make bad decisions, you get sent to your room without dinner. But when you’re an adult and you make bad decisions, it ends up costing you thousands of dollars, or you lose your car or your house or your job.”
– Bob - the - Human
14.“The amount of cardboard boxes you somehow have to deal with!”
– Neuwance
15.“Being unhappy in a job but realising you need it to survive.”
– lakephlaccid
16.“Figuring out what the hell to make for dinner every night for the rest of my life.”
– imunclebubba
17.Carrying the whole responsibility not only for myself, but my children – in all regards. It is absolutely fantastic, but also a constant weighing up of good and bad choices that may have a great impact on the future of human beings I care the most about."
– Bluefire - desire
H/T tou/Djenah-mandr/AskRedditfor having the discussion!
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