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Friday, February 22, 2013

Adulthood Fails

I was talking to a friend about all this growing up stuff the other day, and she brought up an interesting reality that no one really talks much about. She called them her "adulthood fails." Basically, the concept is this: every once in a while, in the midst of living our mature lives, we break down and do something super immature or end up shirking our responsibilities to ourselves or others.

Some examples of this might include (but are certainly not limited to): overcharging your credit card, forgetting to pay a bill, not going into work because you thought you took the day off... Or, you know, crying when you get stranded on a train in the middle of a foreign country for four hours....

Not that I did that or anything.

(Note: this picture is in no way an accurate representation of how I felt about the whole thing)

Basically, adulthood fails remind us that we're still figuring things out. That none of us really have it all together yet. Adulthood fails aren't an excuse to act as immature and irresponsible as you can without consequences. That, my friends, is adulthood failure. Rather, we all have occasional moments when we're still a hot mess, and it's okay to have those moments every once in a great while. They're a reminder that we're all still human and we're all still learning.

So it's okay if you do something dumb once in a blue moon and regret it like crazy. As long as you learn from your mistakes, an occasional fail doesn't make you any worse at this than anyone else.

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