‘What sucks about being an adult that most teenagers don’t realise?’ – 30 home truths

16.

‘You don’t fundamentally change, you are still you, even if you are older. It’s the same you, you just need to survive in the adult world. You don’t gain adult powers, you just have to do adult things.’
Pontus_Pilates

17.

‘For me it’s watching my parents get old.’
Hemenucha

18.

‘Being lonely. Making friends as an adult is difficult, sometimes verging on impossible. You don’t see people in your age group who are doing the same things you are every day anymore.’
HilariousDisaster

19.

‘You’re at a time in your life when you see your friends almost every day at school. That should be cherished, because it’s vastly simpler than maintaining friendships as you enter adulthood and you don’t have that constant contact.

‘Life as an adult is change, most of it outside of your control. People change, circumstances shift…all of that work you put into your adult friendships can vanish in an instant, and you just have to adapt and move on.’
dartblaze

20.

‘You can’t just quit your job if you dont like it.’
elk_eel

21.

“We have food in the house” is always the most responsible decision.’

PM_ME_GOOD_VIBES_

22.

‘You can count your friends on one hand and most of those have been grandfathered in.’
pikaoku

23.

‘Life revolves around grocery shopping, preparing food, washing dishes, doing laundry, vacuuming and tidying up. It does not stop, don’t let it pile up for the weekends or else you waste your weekends stuck indoors.’
MostProbablyWrong

24.

‘By the time you’re 30 you are going to be lucky to see whatever close friends you have left more than a couple times a year. And it’s considered normal.’
tallandlanky

25.

‘The moment you need to pay for everything and the realization that fresh food spoils faster than you ever noticed before was eye opening.’
OneMorePotion

26.

‘Waking up and just aching for non discernible reason other than having slept ‘a bit funny’. Oh, and the 3 day hangovers that make it barely worth drinking more than a couple glasses of wine.’
[deleted]

27.

‘When all the cliches that used to piss you off start making sense and meaning something, but you can’t explain it to younger people because they haven’t lived that life experience yet.’
SmokeyFlannel

28.

‘Forgetting your age is a real problem. The only people who remind me how old I am are my kids, and i often have to double check. I used to ask my parents how old they were and they always “cant remember” or said “21” and it confused me. I get it now.’
magicatom_87

29.

‘Each day is desperately short. Work consumes 75% of the time you’re awake. And the time you’re free is spent doing chores and being tired. Hobbies slowly cease to exist and you just start to look for quick escapes.’
goingrogueatwork

30.

‘Time accelerates. Forty is but a blink away. So seize the opportunity you have today because it’ll be gone in an instant.’
stupidlyugly

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