When you're young, all you want to do is grow up. But then you hit your twenties and you begin to realize that growing up isn't as great as it once seemed. Because growing up doesn't just mean being taller, being able to drive, and being able to buy your own alcohol AND consume it. It also means having responsibilities, having to answer awkward questions about your career prospects and family plans, and, well, basically acting all grown up and mature.
If you're a twentysomething struggling to cope with adulthood then, as you can see from these tweets compiled by Bored Panda, you're not the only one.
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lol - This is what happens when you wait too long.... you go by yourself!
- when you gotta go, you gotta go. it was either walk himself or let loose on the carpet. he chose the former.
I feel like that. Life hits you like a Skyrim bear and you have no experience.
Like a what?? Seriously feeling older and older... can't keep up with you kids!
Load More Replies...And you grasp at a lot of strings to only to discover yer not a blizzard Larry
I hate to break the news to you 20 somethings but I'm 39 and I still feel like this sometimes. We're all winging it. It's just when you get older, you get used to it and can fake it more convincingly. Lol
Life burdens are chasing me like a Dahaka and I'm suppose to run on the wall or jump from one to another to get by it I'm 29 and 129kg
Or you see all your doctors and still come close to dying lmaooo ayyyy American Health Care
For over a year i kept postponing my psychiatric and my physician appointments I have general depression and high liver enzymes
I keep getting shot I really should go to the doctor for, but I just ignore it and how it goes away.
you dont have to be depressed to eat icecream for dinner(or in my case, breakfast) just single.
I hope that's every night, then ~^-^~ ! (that's (hopefully) a happy cat face)
Load More Replies...I happen to just like the ice cream, so I don't have to be depressed. But the real bad news is you have to MAKE a dinner... :D So those ice cream are well earned... :D
Figuratively though not literally. Not to mention gaining weight literally
I tweeted something similar to this years ago. "The best thing about being an adult is you can have as many cookies as you like, the worst thing about being an adult, is you can have as many biscuits as you like"
You are underestimating cats...they can take care of themselves but are also fine if the opportunity to get pampered arised. Which is actually very, very clever.
Being downvoted on a positive comment in cats on this site must mean someone here really likes me...
Load More Replies...Yes, I can wholeheartedly agree. I am independent when I want to but please feed me, pet me (a lot) & give me lots of love & shelter :-)
Off topic, but I must know more about this parrot in your pic!
Load More Replies...These tweets are silly and we're written in good fun, there's no need to take them seriously and to be insulting when the original tweet was self deprecating to begin with.
oh nooo..... but i kinda feel that way right now, and i;m just 27 :)))))
I'm prepared to insult you on every comment. Scumbag.
Load More Replies...My mom just died in August. Now I'm supposed to be the expert. No. Just no.
Sorry for your loss. Be strong, we're with you! :'-(
Load More Replies...I am in the middle of these 2 groups and there is hardly anyone to hang out with anymore!
if there was such a thing as third half, it would be sitting home with seasonal depression
So true! You just get busier and your metabolism slows down and you have hecka more responsibilities!!
Load More Replies...Just give me balloons. And when they pop make sure there's like $8 in there. That's all I kneed
Or in my case ask for a washing line, Ironing board.....a coffee machine if I want a luxury Lmao
No, been adult is when my kids ask me what i want for my bday, is answering: I want another Wonder Woman action figure for my collection. Coz I take care of my bills.
kids are made from rubber and magic. Adults are made from brittle dead twigs.
Since a few weeks I just feel totally the same- adding the fact that I'm getting feel all of my bones each morning. Hard times of adulthood.
50: not so quickly 60: erm wait a minute 70: oh oh oh 80: well, what was I thinkinh about 90: woohoo!
time is relative: 1 year is 1/10th for a 10 year old but 1/60th for a 60 year old. So a minute for a 60 year old is like an hour for a 10 year old.
Load More Replies...When I couldn't reverse my age anymore (last year at 44), I started counting backwards. So now I'm 43 in reverse again: 34. And staying that way. Well, at least until no one believes it anymore...
But actually the 30s are better than the 20s...it really does get better with age. You don't have to lose your inner child as you grow older
I felt Oh God once I hit 23 definitely 25 because I was thinking please make it stop! Lol
OMG! I just turned 26 (30th of sep) I honestly went wait....hold on....Noooooooo :(
Don't worry, I'm 37 and still in this fase... It keeps me slim
Load More Replies...Man, I thought I was an adult from 18 on...I didn't know sh#*!! 34 now and still don't feel like an adult...will I ever get there? #peterpan
This is a cultural difference, I guess, but when I was young and saw in American films, series and cartoons parents sending their children to their room as a punishment, I never understood the purpose behind it. Now I do see why, but when I was a kid, it was like "why would they be sent to their room where they have all the cool toys and games and all? In Japanese cartoons, on the other hand, teenagers would drammatically run into their room (or out of their home) when they'd have a family quarrel with their parents. This one made much more sense to me. When I was a kid, as punishment, we'd usually tend to be told to go to the (empty) corner, sit down and do nothing, or we'd be stopped from going out meeting with friends.
This Comment is same with my mind. As Asian boy, when you doing something wrong, you will get hit with sandal, broom or something else.
Load More Replies...Where I come from, we get the hiding and you handle it. So when you grow up, life isn't so tough.
I don't think they even make that. Don't understand the down vote on your comment, so here's an up.
Load More Replies...I use both. Zits and wrinkles aren't a good combo, but it happens to some of us!
Use Roaccutane for those damn pimples, kills them all...Then ur free to use anti-aging ;P
How about letting the skin breathe and only washing it in the shower every day?
Thank god for google! I barely remember what life was like without it! How did we used to get information?!
By having friends who experienced or have some information about whatever it is you were trying to google. It's crazy how things changed.
Load More Replies...Being a parent of teenagers is, Googling everything I don't understand especially when they text me.
Oh so true.....No matter how much you would like to scream it at everyone & anyone in work lol
Or " I see your point, but I think we should consider this" instead of "shut the f**k up , you moron! We are doing this my way!!"
Sorru if the overly optimistic, slightly philosophical Hans comes through again.
Load More Replies..."move up the career latter as fast as you can" 28: dito 29: dito 30: "still no children?"
Load More Replies...ugh 25...so tired of those questions. Also why arent you settling down?
How's ur health oh lol let me tell u the prednisone healed the poison ivy but made me an insomniac
the hospital gave me a great drug that made me a 25 yo with dementia & I had an allergic rxn but like the last two days have been AY OKAY
Yes!! It's that joke where you don't know if you should congratulate your friend or offer to drive her to the clinic.
Yep me too, My babies shall have four legs and fur!! Down with convention lol
He likes to mess around with paparazzi. I love me some Dustin!!
Load More Replies...you still can do it! i like being an adult as long as i have a salary to pay my bills. imagine having no money, obeying parents, sitting at school half a day and obeying teachers, eating what they give you, wearing what they buy you, going out when they let you... i hated it. the day i got my ID was one of the best in my life. now i decide if i want to lay face down on a carpet or not. being able to decide is amazing. i just don't want all these health problems i was laughing about ten years ago...
It's crazy how that works. Right as soon as you get a job you immediately owe money.
Most of the time it's caused by doing something stupid like lifting heavy stuff. Or your kid...
Only while you are young. When you reach "maturity" you hurt your back doing fun stuff like tying your shoes or opening the mail box or looking over your shoulder.
Load More Replies...Oh my God! This is me right now! Been months! Cant even sleep in a weird pose anymore! Oh my young days, where are you!
Spinaap I feel you on that one....3 dress sizes even....Give me back my size 6 lack of hips!!!
Yeah and I do the same in my 32!.... but I am starting to realize that I wont grow up....
Load More Replies...nearly 31 and I've decided that I'm gonna leave that decision to the adult me..
Psh, she's clearly creating an army to take over the world.
Load More Replies...I see myself in her shoes and know only to outsiders as the crazy dog lady Lol
Of course there's beauty in the world. But you wouldn't recognize it without the contrast of the world also being super messed up
you realize your doctor is just a guy who got some education, just like you got - and it's scary, because we are all more or less helpless. you start working in a drug store and you stop believing in medicines. you work with food and you lose your appetite... there's beauty, but also a lot of justified lack of trust in this world.
I'm engaged the past 4years and still in NOOOOOOO rush to get that piece of paper lol
Thank goodness 20s are not the best - it really does get better if you keep learning and break that routine by taking risks and really live!
So true. Who has time to reply to messages and emails?! Real life just gets in the way
I absolutely do not have the money to get a daily milkshake. Thanks Bill Murray, now I feel worse.
For me it's struggling to talk myself out of eating take out every day at work when I totally, technically, have the money to do so, but regret it when it's time to pay the bills.
Nope defo can't afford the luxury of a daily milkshake.....I can barley afford nestle quix milkshake mix(€1.99)
Lol Oh so true.....all my friends now have babies......plan destroyers!!!
So true. Why do we have to stop dreaming and conform to what society wants for us? #condossuck
I think (hope?!) the choice was the straw that broke the camel's back, but the catalyst
Load More Replies...A small decorative side table next to a chair, or a tall narrow table behind a sofa to put decorative items on. Basically a table that is more decorative than functional.
Load More Replies...I have never been angry at people for remaking a movie, nor understood why other people were angry about it. Does this mean I was never young?
Not sure if he meant multitasking? An adult needs to know how.
Load More Replies...Getting older (late 30s), wondering what on earth this c**p they're playing the radio is.
I'm 29 and I think the same as you. Commercial radio sucks! I listen to music from the 60s-90s because it was better. Most songs nowadays, have absolutely no meaning!
Load More Replies...I will tell you what an adult is: when you wonder what all those 20-25 year olds are blabbing about in an adult post. You're not adults... you're freaking kids!
I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand how most people are classified as adults when they turn a certain age. All of them being younger or around 20-25 years old. On the other hand, it might just be you being 'freaking old' and not understanding that you stop being a kid when you become a teenager.
Load More Replies...I'm 29 now so I might have reached the end of my teenage years, but I'm not sure yet...
Damn people in their 20s wanting adults to do stuff for them.. Blimey at the age of 17 I left home, apart from that I kinda agree.. Being 31 now
Damn people, the twenties aren't that hard if you make smart decisions haba
Getting older (late 30s), wondering what on earth this c**p they're playing the radio is.
I'm 29 and I think the same as you. Commercial radio sucks! I listen to music from the 60s-90s because it was better. Most songs nowadays, have absolutely no meaning!
Load More Replies...I will tell you what an adult is: when you wonder what all those 20-25 year olds are blabbing about in an adult post. You're not adults... you're freaking kids!
I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand how most people are classified as adults when they turn a certain age. All of them being younger or around 20-25 years old. On the other hand, it might just be you being 'freaking old' and not understanding that you stop being a kid when you become a teenager.
Load More Replies...I'm 29 now so I might have reached the end of my teenage years, but I'm not sure yet...
Damn people in their 20s wanting adults to do stuff for them.. Blimey at the age of 17 I left home, apart from that I kinda agree.. Being 31 now
Damn people, the twenties aren't that hard if you make smart decisions haba
