Growing up as a child, you look up to adults with a sense of awe and trust. They know exactly what they are doing. Adults have got it all under control and will make sure that everything works just as it should. Stepping into adulthood is going to be great!
Well, as we all know by now, that notion is nothing but a big fat charade. Adults are as clueless as kids half the time. Why didn’t they prepare us for actual life problem-solving? It turns out that there are a ton of unpleasant and unexpected discoveries that come with adulting. Instead of teaching algebra, religion, and other useless subjects, prepare us for some of the grim everyday problems of adult life instead!
A Twitter thread kick-started by Lauren Chanel Allen, people have been sharing their own funny problems that nobody has prepared them to meet. At times hilarious, insightful, and relatable, this list compiled by Bored Panda definitely makes for entertaining reading.
Scroll down below to check the best Tweets out for yourself, and feel free to leave your own in the comments!
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It's just much harder managing that when you live alone than with a larger family. Even the smallest portions can be a lot for a single person. My mom never had trouble with that when she cooked for us 4. Now that she's living alone, she's having these problems too.
My dad used to always say this and I thought it was just something old people thought. Youth is truly wasted on the young.
Story of my life. Even when you make relatively okay money, every fucking thing is so so sooo expensive.
Wow, really? Maybe you should change jobs if you feel like you want to die or need to find excuses not to go! Working isn't that bad! I mean, of course it depends on each person's job, personal motivation, and other factors such as possible illnesses (I'm thinking of depression), but weren't you already more or less used to this sort of morning routine when you went to school? High school? University?
I'm 73. When i was younger, both my parents advised me to always have younger people among my friends. i have found this to be very wise advice.
Yup. Beds are suddenly crazy expensive. Tables and Sofas/ couches too! Suddenly, DIY carpentry and solution videos fill your YouTube play list. Then you begin to wonder how dad and mom didn't completely lose their shit every time you jumped on the furniture..
i finally put together a four week turn-around menu. It took ages but now i know ahead of time everything we'll be having for dinner.
The best math class I took was business math. My dad didn't want me to but I had a hard time in pre-algebra in middle school. Business math was the same level as pre-algebra, but it was applied math. That was one of the most useful classes I took. I have always done my own taxes, even when the return was still on paper. I do wish they'd gone into stocks & mutual funds and that type of thing. We got a bit of that in economics in high school, but not nearly as much when you figure how much it can affect your life.
I don't love my field of work, but I get by by enjoying being useful. Can do most jobs that way.
This needs to be higher. I see so many friends and relatives (and i did it for a while too until i realised how damaging it was) holding onto grudges from things that happened to them when they were kids.
The more prepared for a rainy day you are, the less they'll come. After all it's not a rainy day if you're fully expecting it.
YES! feel like im always living for the weekend when i should be making the most of my weekday evenings just as much
And the feeling of fear that comes with this responsibility. Are you really helping or are you just insulting them? And what if you are wrong? I really want an "owner's manual" for the human life.
"Will I remember this fight in 5 years, will it still upset me?" probably not, so best let it go now
Yes, one of the good things. It took me 2 divorces to be happy with just me and not worry about what others think.
When I had this epiphany it was both the most terrifying and the most liberating moment of my life.
That means they get to make different mistakes first and you can learn from watching
I could not agree more. Worse though when you might look like the bad guy because everyone around the toxic person either believes their manipulation or too new to knowing them
I take a deep breath, pretend to be someone who can cope, do what I need to do, go home and cry under the covers and sleep for a couple of days and do nothing else for weeks. Faking confidence has consequences. Friends are used to me being full on over the top when in public. It's how I cope. No sliding scale... full on or off. Usually chat via text, much calmer
yup...that about covers it...oh, and being 17 on the inside and 60 (yrs old) on the outside.
But you can make that easier for your children, if you accept a "no" from them then and when (when its not that important- f.e. no I don't want to go to grandma today is alright, no I don't want to brush my teeth/ go to school id not) so they get confident in saying what they really want
I rarely do this. I only do it now with my car insurance because that's the only way they will finance it, and they are good about giving me several warnings before they take out the money. I'm bad about forgetting things like that, and a few times I've had companies take out the money early and blow up my account.
Got laughed at for asking about pensions when I started working. Then laughed at by financial adviser for trying to get a pension when I earned so little ( they wanted 3 times my gross pay minimum to start a scheme) Still no pension and I'm closing in on retirement age
i always wanted to be career woman when i was a little kid soooo fucking ambitious, and finally i am a career woman at my 26 now but turns out i wanted all the wrong things to be happy. I would've prefer to get married at a young age and being deeply in love, have kids with semi-domestic life would make me happier period.
I think nobody could ever imagine that you have to be prepared for "that".
