“Adult”
I wonder if you ever actually feel like a “real adult”.
When I was little, I saw people my age and thought they were “real adults”…but now that I’m here, I realize that no one my age is really “grown up” – we’re all still inexperienced and we are still learning and we’re still irresponsible and reckless; I look around and see people 10+ years older than me, and even THEY still aren’t the “real adults” I saw when I was little – even though I’m sure there are a million kids out there that look at them and see exactly what I saw. “real adults”
Do we ever actually fulfill that ideal that we have in our heads of what it means to grow up?