Is it fun being an adult?
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Hero
Depends on what you mean by fun. Depends on what you mean by adult. 
I enjoy it well enough. You should try it sometime.
I enjoy it well enough. You should try it sometime.
Henry
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I'm going to answer the same as everyone else.
There are fun things, like being responsible for your own life, being totally independent and paying your own way.
There are un-fun things, like when you shell out over half your paycheck each month for bills.
I also find that, with regard to Zander's observation, that my parents WERE right. The older I get, the more I find I DON'T buy things I thought I wanted. I might splurge once a quarter, but in general there are far less things I want, and more events I want.
I can afford all the D&D product I want, but don't have time to play it all.
I can drive my car wherever I want, but responsibilities dictate that I don't have much time as I used to to explore.
It's a trade-off -- all the time as a teen, but less time and more money as adult.
There are fun things, like being responsible for your own life, being totally independent and paying your own way.
There are un-fun things, like when you shell out over half your paycheck each month for bills.
I also find that, with regard to Zander's observation, that my parents WERE right. The older I get, the more I find I DON'T buy things I thought I wanted. I might splurge once a quarter, but in general there are far less things I want, and more events I want.
I can afford all the D&D product I want, but don't have time to play it all.
I can drive my car wherever I want, but responsibilities dictate that I don't have much time as I used to to explore.
It's a trade-off -- all the time as a teen, but less time and more money as adult.
BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
Happiness is not a physical condition, it is a state of mind.
I'm much happier now than I was even though I have more responsibilities, less free time, and trapped in a body that is sluggish with a permanant dull pain in my left shoulder that I will have for the rest of my life. The challenges are greater, but my ability to deal with challenges has increased enormously.
But really, happiness is in your head.
I'm much happier now than I was even though I have more responsibilities, less free time, and trapped in a body that is sluggish with a permanant dull pain in my left shoulder that I will have for the rest of my life. The challenges are greater, but my ability to deal with challenges has increased enormously.
But really, happiness is in your head.
WayneLigon
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Bartmanhomer said:
Not really. The few pleasures or extra rights you get are almost meaningless when weighed against the burden of supporting yourself, the uncertain future of almost any job, stress and more stress, expectations of others, and more. If you have children, pretty much expect to throw away all your own dreams and desires for the next 21 years or more and hope that they turn out well instead of proving to be a continuing burden and disappointment to you. By then, of course, you'll be too old to really enjoy anything unless you are genetically very lucky or had then very early in life. Compared to that, high school is a picnic.
So many people remark that their college years are their best years and I've almost decided that they are right. College is, unless you are in a very unusual situation, the one and only time in your entire life when you can set your own schedule and your own pace. Unless you have unusual requirements, such as having to take X classes or lose the money allowing you to go in the first place, you will never, ever again be able to do this thing.
Really, though, middle and late high school is the best time. Unless you live where they have year-round schooling, you have three months (when I was a kid, school ended dead at the last day of May and never started until past Labor Day) out of the year as time to yourself. I got what I wanted for birthday and Xmas. I had school, which freed you in mid-afternoon so that, hey, a 4pm movie wasn't an impossibility. I had a lot more friends because they hadn't all moved away or gotten caught up with other concerns; gaming was certainly better because we could do it all weekend long if we wanted. I could eat what I wanted and it didn't instantly turn to fat. I could stay up until 2am then bounce out of bed at 6am, ready to go. We took vacations to nice places. Relatives came and stayed for several days or more than a week. Didn't have to bother with a job, didn't have to dress up, didn't have to worry if the car was going to make it another couple of years and what would happen if it didn't, didn't have to pay bills, or a thousand other little things.
megamania
Hero
I'm curious bartmanhomer-
how old are you and why do you ask?
If you are worried things will be harder in life than they are now don't. They are as you see them.
Like everything in life- it's about moderation.
The reason I have rough edges in my life currently is I owe on Credit cards. To deal with it has nearly cost me everything important to me. But keep smiling.
keep smiling
how old are you and why do you ask?
If you are worried things will be harder in life than they are now don't. They are as you see them.
Like everything in life- it's about moderation.
The reason I have rough edges in my life currently is I owe on Credit cards. To deal with it has nearly cost me everything important to me. But keep smiling.
keep smiling
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