This blog post by Robert Birming popped up my RSS feed the other day and it very much resonated with me.
I’m soon turning 54, but I don’t feel like an adult.
It’s not that I feel like a child. I just feel “non-adult”.
When do you become an adult?
I’m 35 years old. I just bought an entire god damn house, I have a job with some amount of responsibility and a family that I adore, but I also don’t feel like an adult. Buying the house was the weirdest thing for me. Like, how in the world are they letting me do this? Do they not realize my lack of adultness?!
Either way it’s nice to see that I’m not alone in feeling this way. Maybe I should just stop worrying about it. Maybe I’ll feel like an adult at some point. But maybe I won’t and maybe that’s better than the alternative.