Why is it that so many people find it to be a struggle to "Adult"? Why can we spend our days aimlessly as kids and spend all the money in the world doing things in our fleeting moments as we grow up but then as we age we struggle to find time for ourselves and we never have any money to do the things we wish we could, even the cheapest things like going out for a burger at McDonald's?
Now this isn't necessarily true for everyone. Some people are set up for "success" early on, in the sense that they spend most of their childhood acting as adults in their own lives. Some people learned how to cook and clean after themselves early on, others have not bothered doing their own laundry to this day and they even went away to college. Some people received a penny as their allowance and learned how to budget that income so that maybe by the end of the year they could buy themselves a new doll at the dollar tree, others received a card from somebody in their family and never had to worry about running out of money, they just continued to spend and the money would refill itself.
There are ways you can learn these life skills later on but not everyone wants to take the time to. Some people may think that they are trying their best but their mindset is still in that demeanor of wanting to buy everything in the moment as they decide they want it and therefore do not actually learn from any new tactics they try to learn.
Maybe adulting is not for everyone, and that is okay. But everyone needs to learn how to continue to progress and be better because otherwise, you are going to end up spending every day of your life relying on others to get you through. You are going to run yourself into debt and homelessness. You are going to make yourself smelly and undesirable.
Not everyone is dealt a bad hand but what you do with your hand is going to say even more about you in the long run.
How have you faired in your adulting journey?
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