During holiday season while growing I always see adults come home with their families or as single people so I would always meet my friends and keep telling them that I can't wait to become an adult.
Anything that went wrong then I will always say it's because am a child, if I was to be an adult no one would treat me this way.
Monica my friend then will always tell me that adulthood is not an easy thing but I will tell her to shut her mouth, besides both of us are still children living with our parents, in my brain she doesn't know what she's talking about.
Monica was born into a rich family so I thought that she doesn't understand the stress I go through then that's why she doesn't want to be an adult so fast like me.
I never knew that adulthood means responsibility and challenges as well, one day I even told my mom that I will soon become an adult and leave the house let me see who she will be scolding every time, she just smiled at me and walked away, I was just wondering why she smiled and walked away, now I understand that smile better.
I clocked eighteen years before I finished college and I was bragging to my classmates that am leaving home soon, even my teachers knew how fast I wanted to become an adult and leave home.
Facing Adulthood with force
The year I turned 20 I thought that am ready to become an adult.
One night my mom scold me and I packed my bag and left the house, I had no idea what I was doing to myself but in my brain I was going to get freedom at least.
I traveled to the next village and stayed with a friend who also left home to gain freedom.
That was the beginning of my pangs, after few days my friend said we will get a job to take care of our bills, at first I thought that was how I will also gain financial freedom rapidly and become a boss of my own, little did I understand the mental stress that comes with adulthood.
Bills replaced the home chores I ran away from, those bills all has a deadline, unlike when I was a child that I can skip house chores and push it to my siblings, now I can't push my bills to anyone else, they are my responsibilities and they can be choking.
Now I don't regret being an adult because I know that one day it will come but I regret leaving home so early, maybe I would have learned more lesson on how to manage the challenges that comes with adulthood instead focusing on my dream freedom that remains a dream till this minute that am writing this content.
Conclusively I will plead with all children still living with their parents to please remain with their parents and enjoy that gift of childhood because adulthood is not an easy phase at all, adulthood is a blessing as well but it's so demanding that one could wish to remain a child.
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STOPReading this I got so much emotionally attacked to
It how I wish I was still a child I would have taken this advice of yours but now am a full grown adult it too late I was also the same then it comes with a lot of mental stress and pain thanks for sharing
It's way too late to think about childhood, the only thing left is to manage the adulthood well lol
Thank you for reading.
Yea you are right we just have to push through hoping to break out and achieve result
99.8% of us when we're children, wished to be an adult to enjoy adulthood privileges but when we got to the stage, our eyes got opened😂.
Btw, your first photo poked my curious mind, what is It? Lol😂
Adulthood is not easy I wish younger ones will listen to your advice