Take Me Out of Adulthood Send Me Back to A Child
In every stage of life, we learn responsibilities that will help us in the next stage of life. All of us at some point when we were teenagers could not wait until we became of age to get out on our own and do whatever it was, we could not do. Nothing could have prepared me for the real world, young adulthood! Adulthood has brought about many responsibilities. A job, waking yourself up, paying your own phone bill. Sometimes cooking for yourself and much more. I often wonder could I just rewind time back to the beginning. Adulthood and childhood are not like I imagine.
My parents made it look so easy when it came to responsibility. Responsibilities for the most part has thrown lemons my way but want me to catch them and make lemonade. I am struggling to be at work on time because I turn the alarm clock off three times before its time to go. My parent can get up and cook an entire breakfast and complete 5 tasks before going to work. After working a 10-hour job, they come home and act just like today was peaches and cream. Here I am struggling to get the day over with and struggling to stay awake to complete homework assignments that are due in the next few hours. Is there something parents did not tell us.
Let us talk about paying bills. Imagine a single person staying alone paying all the necessary bills such as rent, electric, gas and food. Not including the extra bills for cable, cell phone bill and extra activities. Why is it, I only have my cell phone bill to pay since I have a job but do not want to pay it on time because it is not due until the 15th.
Over a period of time, when reality began to kick in; we realize that there was no supernatural power that made their responsibilities easier. However, it was they will power they put into their responsibilities that made things a little more manageable. As young adults, we look up to our parents for advice and guidance and one day we hope to handle responsibilities with the same will power as they did. There are definitely differences between young adults and older adults.