Adulting: The Struggle Is Real. Seriously.

May 25, 2016 | Posted at 5:55 pm | by Richelle (Follow User)

Yeah, I can’t adult. Well, at least this week.
 


 
I’m feeling like my “friend” named, Tina. 🙂 I’m serious. Trying to get your life together, grow up, and “adult” is… overwhelming. I’m feeling the pressure. My friends are feeling the pressure. I look around and most people my age admit to me that they’re feeling the pressure. The struggle is real, very real.
 
So, how do people do this thing called, adulting?
 

How did my parents do it? Then again, the times were completely then how they are now for our generation. What’s required of us is different, the conditions of the world are different, and just the realities of life are different.
 

Everyone makes it seem like our generation is lazy or entitled. No, that’s not true – at least for a lot of us anyway. The truth is, there’s so much being thrown at us all at once that it makes it hard to function. It makes it hard to “get our stuff” in order.” It makes it hard to really focus on what we want to do with our lives.
 

So dear society, it’s not that we’re lazy. Instead, it’s that you’ve thrown so much at us, so much more than what our parents had to go through that we don’t even know where to begin. Literally. But we’ll make it. We’ll dig deep. We’ll figure it out. We’ll find the courage and the motivation to push forward, knowing that we can go further than every previous generation. We will find a way to get our lives in order. We’ll get good jobs, start our families, and make the world a better place. That’s what adulting is all about anyway, right?