For me it’s moving your bed away from the side walls so it’s in the middle of the room. I had my bed to the side my whole childhood
Waking up at 7 on a Saturday for no fucking reason
Getting a new kitchen appliance is exciting. I was so amazed when I first got an air fryer. Also, getting socks as a gift is pretty good.
I was in my late 20s and two of my uncle was having a heated argument over politics. Everyone else was quiet, afraid to say anything. I spoke out in a normal tone, not raising my voice, “that’s enough”. They stopped immediately. It was fairly surreal.
Having the opportunity to buy cake whenever you want, having enough money to buy cake whenever you want, and choosing to not buy cake whenever you want.
choosing to not buy cake whenever you want
That’s past adult and goes into senior territory.
No, wait, I’m not that old yet right?? Right???
The #1 sign of adulting has to be paying for your own stuff.
Mine was paying for an airbrush, and i was in my 40’s by this point, but the realisation i could buy a completely superflous, but expensive, thing for myself was a bit if a wow. But yeah house bills also lol
Taking responsibility for your own actions.
Not just mistakes, but being proactive about positive things without needing to be prompted.
A bit of both for me. Whenever I dropped a bollock in work or whereever, my head used to go down and I’d be waiting for the hairdryer treatment like I was waiting outside the headmaster’s office.
Now, if some cockwomble decides to mass-email someone with a passive aggressive email about “could the person who…” and it’s quite clearly my mistake, I take great pleasure in absolutely owning it, smashing that reply-all button, and explaining in painful detail how yes it was my fuck up; yes I did do it with good intentions but hey things go sideways sometimes; and yes abso-fucking-lutely thank you for your shitty email that has had all the effect of a silent fart.
I think the best part of adulting is that you can make no mistakes and still lose (yeah Picard boiiii), and realising that nobody’s going to care about it in a week’s time.
The wiry black hair that grows halfway up the length of my penis for some reason
Celebrities (especially politicians) younger than me existing.
How dare they, frankly. Tell them to get off my lawn.
Still trying to figure out who this bbno$ character is…
Eating a meal that is mostly vegetables.
I posted a gif of Ray Liotta laughing in Goodfellas a few days ago. Someone replied telling me the gif was perfect, and asking what was it from?
Oh shit, I think that was me on my feddit account.
I’m 40 years young, I was just never into Mafia films. Still never seen Scarface.
When you stop caring if something is a childish thing or not. Some people never get there.
Owning a proper lawn-momer like the one my dad had. A proper petrol, cylinder mower like this one:
I bought a refurbished on from eBay. Sadly my lawn is too shitty and bumpy to use it, so I just use a Honda IZY which does a perfectly good job but it’s not like the one my dad had.
Starting to remember the good reasons why you DIDN’T like something in the past and trusting your past judgment.
Coming around and disagreeing with your younger self hits pretty hard
That happens first, then one more time you will be faced with the same choice, and you will remember that happened and that you were already wiser once.
Realizing capitalism sorta sucks
When I got a well-paying job, earning me about 10 times as much as I did while working as a teaching assistant at uni. I realized I could afford more than renting a student apartment and cheap food. Buying furniture, an apartment, having kids, tech toys. A car.
Makes me feel independent and in control of my life, I guess.
