Some of the biggest things I think they either don’t understand, or simply ignorant about:
- That we don’t get to do “whatever we want.” The overwhelming majority of adults have bills, appointments, a work schedule, obligations. I desperately wish I could just go “fuck it, I’m gonna get plowed tonight, because I can” on a Tuesday night, but sadly, it doesn’t work that way.
- Responsibility. We have a bunch of em, and it goes hand in hand with the above. They often don’t realize just how much their parents do for them. When you begin living on your own, having to do your own laundry, cook your own food, pay your rent, cell phone bill, food, car payments and gas, and more, you realize just how expensive it is to be an adult, and how much work you have to put in to take care of yourself versus living with the parents. And this doesn’t even take into account raising kids (something I will personally be spared, thank god). If you add kids into the mix, add a shit-ton more expenses, and far less free time.
- That the world doesn’t owe them anything. Most teens have these very vague life plans: finish high school, go to university, graduate and get a career going, find a spouse along the way, maybe raise some rugrats. Then, surprise, you’re looking at 30, and for many folks, have no career, no spouse, no kids. They are still a bachelor/ette, working a mediocre dead-end job, cresting the big 3–0, and realizing that all those plans they had that they thought would just fall into their lap simply never materialized.
Thanks for the A2A, Habib.
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