Adulting is hard and we sometimes (read: very often) wish we were cats. We wouldn’t have to worry about paying rent, breaking our backs at work, making dinner every night, the horrors of inflation, and the looming financial Apocalypse. Even if cathood is off the table, we’d love to be kids again and enjoy life without worrying about every tiny little thing. Unfortunately, you can’t turn back the clock to a simpler time in our lives.
Being responsible for yourself and for others can be overwhelming. And redditors opened up about the things they dislike the most about adult life in a very candid thread on r/AskReddit, started up by u/RowBowBooty.
From major financial pressures and never having enough time for leisure to something as simple as figuring out what to eat for every gosh-darned meal for the rest of your life, adults have it hard. Scroll down for the biggest adulthood challenges, as shared by these redditors. Once you’re done upvoting the posts that you agree with the most, drop by the comment section and tell us about what you absolutely loathe about being a grown-up, dear Pandas.
Bored Panda reached out to the author of the thread, redditor u/RowBowBooty, to get their perspective about adulthood and its challenges. He was kind enough to answer all of our questions. "It’s not always a bad thing to be an adult and responsible, but it’s just not what I imagined as a kid and wanted to know how others feel about adulthood. I wanted to commiserate with those who were somewhat frustrated with adulthood like I was." You'll find our full candid interview with the author of the thread below.
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#21
I really hate those moments where I get a reality check about my childhood/teenage years. Since becoming an adult, I’ve been noticing problems in my family I would have never been able to see with my childhood naivety. Also, a certain music scene used to be a big part of my life. I’ve been an adult for close to a decade now, and half of the people I admired turned out to be very s***** people — with some even convicted and stuff. Gives me a really bad feeling about what/who used to give me a feeling of belonging and comfort in my teenage years
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#23
How much i would need to lie on the floor to make my back feel better
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#24
The next step seems so far away. There was always the next grade level, or next school (middle school, then high school, then college). The next graduation, the next step up. Suddenly, retirement is the next step, which is 40 years away.
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#25
Honestly, a big one is having to relearn a lot of things that I thought I’d never need in school when I was younger. Turns out, you do end up using a lot of it, just not in the ways you expected.
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#26
No summers off. I would cut my salary in half for that.
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#27
Taxes. On top of paying for everything yourself, you also need to pay for simply existing in a society.
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