Finally becoming a grown up

Morglin

I am never too old, and the fact that the government keeps moving my pension age confirms it....:T


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Lin

Gloomendoom

krustylouise wrote: »

I am a mummy to one, have lived alone for 13years and work full time, due to get married in 3 months and I STILL feel not grown up! When I buy alcohol I always expect to be ID'd and feel disappointed when I don't :rotfl:

I was a bit shocked the last time I was ID'd for alcohol.

I was 47.

Hermia

hgotsparkle wrote: »

Its really sad but the first time when I felt like a proper grown up was when my nan came to me for help when she started having a stroke. Usually things like that were kept from me and she'd put on a brave face and try not to upset me with but when she asked me to phone her an ambulance whilst crying that I knew then I was seen as an adult and that shocked me.

I had a similar experience. My dad died when I was 21 and I remember having to care for him and thinking, 'that's it, my youth is gone'. I felt grown up from then on, especially as my friends seemed so obsessed with superficial, unimportant things.

It does interest what things are considered grown up. I don't want kids and have never really fancied the whole settling down thing. I love travel and intend to do that till I can. I have had people pretty much say that that is a thing people do when young and I should grow up! So I guess abandoning your passions is considered grown up. I think I will stay childish then!

greenorange

I'm 23, graduate next month, and still don't quite feel like a grown up.

Gloomendoom

My granddad fought in France during WW1, had a wife who committed suicide and a son blown to bits in Palestine and he still told me he still felt 18 in his head. He was 84 at the time.

Artytarty

That's amazing.
My grandfather also fought in the Great War. He was 23 and a veterinary surgeon in charge of all those poor horses. I reckon he was a grown up when he came back.
My son on the other hand, is also 23 and a vet and just a rather large kid in most respects.maturity seems to arrive at differing rates.

themull1

i didnt even feel like a grown up when my second husband left, and i bought him out of the house, and had my two kids. i sort of felt like a kid being left in charge!!! and i was 42 at the time!!

Snakey

I thought I was grown up at 17 when I left home, now I'm 42 I feel a lot more child-like. I can take things in my stride that, had they happened 25 years ago, would have knocked me for six and this frees up a lot of headspace for just doing "whatever" which is a large part of what I remember being a kid was about.

Having the financial and other freedom of being an adult is nice. I wouldn't want to go back to actually being a kid. Picking and choosing has to be the best.

Tuesday_Tenor

Mostly still a kid at 55 !

But do remember how very grown up I felt when booking and staying in a B&B on my own for the first time, for my university interview when I was 17.

victory

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I was a bit shocked the last time I was ID'd for alcohol.

I was 47.

OMG that is so funny, that happened to me last week :rotfl::rotfl: I started telling her how many years I'd been married and the kids ages:rotfl: