My age says I’m an adult but sometimes I think other people know more about being an adult than me.

  • PKscope@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It’s right around the time that you realize your parents were just doing the best they could and didn’t know how to “adult” either that you start to understand that you’re destined to do the same thing. We’re all just making it up as we go and hoping to do better than the previous generation. Generation after generation built upon the knowledge of iteration.

    So yeah, mentally, I don’t feel significantly different than I have at any other time in the past twenty years, aside from knowledge and experience, but I also realize that I’m viewed significantly different by others, so you kind of have to act the part and fake it till you make it.

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      11 days ago

      the difference between my parents and my siblings and I is that we learn from our mistakes. we try different things, we defer to experts to gain more knowledge and guidance.

      my parents didn’t. a lot of people actively don’t and refuse to do so and live with the assumption their their assumptions and instincts are ‘correct’ and others are not.