1) You will get hurt....a lot.
I mean, obviously. You get hurt a lot as a child/adolescent/teenager. However, on my birthday, I managed to stub my toe, get a paper cut, and scrape my ankle on concrete (Yes, this is a sad attempt at being funny. Pity laugh if you have to for my sake).
2) Sometimes you will hurt other people.
Again, on my birthday, I accidentally ruined the end of How I Met Your Mother to a friend who is still only on season five. Am I a life ruiner? According to him for the rest of the day, I was. I just accepted the fact that in adulthood, you're going to ruin many people's lives, if only for a few hours. (Another sad attempt at being funny. I'm so sorry).
3) There is a reason people become addicted to the lottery.
I waited a good week and a half before I bought my first lottery ticket. Mainly because I was waiting for my actual drivers license to come in the mail so I wouldn't have to use a piece of paper, but also because I didn't want to suddenly become addicted to gambling (don't judge me, I am a naive adult). I finally went to the gas station and bought a lottery ticket...and another...and another...and another. In the end, I won $10, and only spent about $5 (because I had gotten some of my tickets "free" with my previous winnings). I instantly understood why people become so addicted to the lottery because there's that wonderful "What if...?" feeling. I thought to myself more than once "What if I win the jackpot?" Will I buy more lottery tickets? Probably. Will I make sure it doesn't become a habit? Most definitely.
4) Really though, it's not as great as it's cracked up to be.
Yay I get to vote and have a drivers license without a curfew on it and buy lottery tickets and cigarettes (I will never smoke anyway so the last one doesn't really apply, but you get the point)! Woo! But honestly, I don't feel any different except for the fact that if I wanted to buy a dog from Petland, I totally could. It's just really anti-climatic in all honesty.
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| Look at this cutie though. Who wouldn't want that fur baby? |
5) Sometimes good things come along in the blink of an eye...and leave just as fast.
The same day I started my senior year of high school, I started my first job ever. I was so excited because I was finally going to have a sense of independence. However as the weeks went on, I found myself becoming moody, stressed, and not motivated or driven to do anything involving school (which if you know me, is nothing like how I normally am). This amazingly wonderful blessing quickly turned into a burden. It was so hard for me to get out of bed in the mornings for school because I knew that after school, I would have to go to work. I honestly think it just wasn't the right environment for me. And so, with that, my job ended just as fast as it had began. In a way, I was sad to see this milestone go, but it was such a weight lifted off of my shoulders that I knew it was supposed to be this way.
Yes, most of this post was meant to be comedic, but I was serious on a few aspects. Do I know everything about life now that I am an "adult"? Definitely not. Will I ever? It's doubtful. In my short eighteen years of life, however, I have learned that the most important thing to me in my life is happiness. That is my goal for the rest of my life. No matter what I do, I want to be happy.
The same day I started my senior year of high school, I started my first job ever. I was so excited because I was finally going to have a sense of independence. However as the weeks went on, I found myself becoming moody, stressed, and not motivated or driven to do anything involving school (which if you know me, is nothing like how I normally am). This amazingly wonderful blessing quickly turned into a burden. It was so hard for me to get out of bed in the mornings for school because I knew that after school, I would have to go to work. I honestly think it just wasn't the right environment for me. And so, with that, my job ended just as fast as it had began. In a way, I was sad to see this milestone go, but it was such a weight lifted off of my shoulders that I knew it was supposed to be this way.
Yes, most of this post was meant to be comedic, but I was serious on a few aspects. Do I know everything about life now that I am an "adult"? Definitely not. Will I ever? It's doubtful. In my short eighteen years of life, however, I have learned that the most important thing to me in my life is happiness. That is my goal for the rest of my life. No matter what I do, I want to be happy.
