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[Mineshaft_Gap]

Being able to relax as a passenger in a car while someone else is driving. I wouldn't say that I stress out while I drive but I'm definitely alert and aware of my surroundings. Unlike the days of yore when I could conk out, read a book, play gameboy or whathaveyou while riding in a car, now when I'm a passenger I'm way too aware of the road to be able to relax. I might as well be driving.

Summer.

...



The illusion that adults were perfected human beings who were mature. Adults are self important teenagers with responsibility and it's terrifying.

 

[obin_gam]

Love and its "being mature about stuff"

 

[speculawyer]

Uh . . . pretty much everything.

 

[Drifters]

snowasanadult.jpg

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

smoking pot. Yeah, it isn't as great as they say.


You should also check out public transportation.

 

[Auctopus]

Life

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Uh . . . pretty much everything.

Not everything. The sex is way better.

 

[speculawyer]

Not everything. The sex is way better.

Not as good as I imagined.

 

[zerotol]

Being able to relax as a passenger in a car while someone else is driving. I wouldn't say that I stress out while I drive but I'm definitely I'm alert aware of my surroundings. Unlike the days of yore when I could conk out, read a book, play gameboy or whathaveyou while driving in a car. Now when I'm a passenger I'm way too aware of the road to be able to relax. I might as well be driving.

Summer.

...



The illusion that adults were perfected human beings who were mature. Adults are self important teenagers with responsibility and it's terrifying.

I can't relax as a passenger either. That ship has sailed.

 

[Valnen]

How I view "mature" people.

Most people really don't grow up much past the high school stage, honestly.

 

[Auto-Reply]

Star Wars

Spoiler

(I've become an adult in 1999 at the age of 20)

 

[Apt101]

Definitely summer. That first morning, and looking ahead to three long months. I pictured nights over at friends playing games, street football, baseball, windy and cool nights camping out in back yards. Later parties and girls and parties and girls and surfing at night.

Now it's just "great, it's going to be hot as hell on my way to work".

How I view "mature" people.

Most people really don't grow up much past the high school stage, honestly.

I've found that in private, people remain more or less the same ages 18 to 30-ish. Kids, success, failure, hardship, none of it seems to matter.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I feel no joy as an adult.

 

[Orgun]

I'm 32, i'll let you know when I feel like i'm an Adult and mature

 

[GillianSeed79]

My credit score

 

[Strax]

Winter and being able to not give a fuck, even at times I feel like its justified

 

[Blastoise]

You just get away with a lot of shit when you're young.

 

[Sesuadra]

other adults.

 

[soundscream]

Snow

 

[Mik317]

Life.

 

[Stevetopsy]

Thinking that adults weren't petty or childish, that they knew everything, and that all their choices and decisions were correct and sensible.

Also, the bliss of being ignorant to stress, depressing world issues, feeling of mortality, etc.

So everything I guess.

 

[Korigama]

December feeling like anything other than just another month. The holiday season in general, really.

 

[Anth0ny]

pretty much everything

 

[injurai]

Running around for fun.

Was never into sports, but as I outgrew the neighborhood so did my exercise.

 

[Randam]

Playing in the sandbox.

 

[StickSoldier]

Bein an adult fucking sucks honestly. Being a kid was awesome, everything that I enjoy now was about 100x better when I was young.

 

[SlickShoes]

Pretty much everything, thinking that adults are clued up and know whats going on when the actual fact is most of them are just terrified teenagers in older bodies.

General feeling of security and happiness, I am a home owner now and have been for some years but it still feels like I could lose it all at any time, and that when shit goes wrong I have to fix it or pay for it to be fixed.

I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was at school, always thought one day I would realise. Now I am 31 and still have no idea.

I still feel like a teenager but when I look in the mirror my face tells me otherwise.

Basically the added responsibility you have as an adult pretty much ruins everything, unless you have somehow managed to avoid taking on responsibility for other people and things they you are probably really enjoying everything and can just do whatever you want.

I still enjoy lots of things in life but not to the extent I did when I was younger, you have a freedom that most adults aren't lucky enough to continue having.

 

[Renekton]

Bein an adult fucking sucks honestly. Being a kid was awesome, everything that I enjoy now was about 100x better when I was young.

I'm kinda the other way round.

Having disposable income to unleash my inner kid is pretty sweet, and I'm still easily impressed by games and entertainment.

 

[DesertEater]

How I view "mature" people.

Most people really don't grow up much past the high school stage, honestly.

This. Some 'adults', i swear, act like children stuck in the wrong bodies.

Still though, being an adult beats being a child in many ways. I have my own place, for example, and I can do what ever and invite whomever i want. Work isn't all that I hoped it would be, but getting paid fucking rocks! Being able to travel alone is just amazing. I appreciate my family much more as an adult.

Though I do feel i'm too old to start investing in something, which is the shit part. Like I always think it's too late to be an 'artist'. I guess i'm more disillusioned.

 

[Archer]

Marriage and love, as a man.

Men aren't better off alone.

Men are better off focusing on themselves, their dreams, their goals, their friends, and having fun.

Men are better off realizing that sex is largely overrated.

They are better off realizing that in most cases, relationships will slow them down, and possibly cost them bigtime, not just financially.

They are better off realizing that a relationship (other than a fling) is a pretty serious thing and shouldn't be entered into lightly with any woman of less than stellar character.

They are better off accepting the realities of the world and shaping themselves into whatever their own personal vision of success and fulfillment is, and...so long as that vision isn't criminal, they shouldn't give a damn about what anyone thinks of it.

 

[TommyTosser]

Having to watch what you eat. Having teeth fall out now isn't a good thing.

And body hair. I didn't sign up for this.

 

[GraveHorizon]

Masturbation. It gets harder with age.

 

[Shanks D Zoro]

Video games, I use to think it was all about playing games and having a good time. Now I know it is really all about arguing on message boards about consoles sales and resolutions.

 

[Beaniedude]

Family movies.

Now I relate to the adults!
It's the worst feeling.

 

[FZZ]

Others are dependent on you, and if your shit isn't straight chances are you will disappoint them.

 

[Nyx]

I am 36 years old and enjoy anything I liked back when I was 16.

 

[Symphonia]

I feel no joy as an adult.

I felt no joy as a kid.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Videogames.


When I was I a kid I didn't have the money to buy them. Or I had to save for quite some time.

Now that I have the money, I don't have the time.



Also dreaming of the future:

As a kid: "I can be everything!"

Today: "No you won't!"

 

[Vicetrailia]

Videogames and media entertainment: Back then I could really enjoy it, and as for today I realize that I mass consumed without fulfillment. It goes in, it goes out and very little value is added. Next, next and next. But that's for the most part, it's always a pleasure to pick up a movie that makes a positive impact on your life.

 

[soepje]

Sundays could seem endless. Just having fun playing outside without that nagging feeling of having a list of things that should be done in the back of my head.

 

[kewlmyc]

Snow. Fuck snow.

 

[Kallor]

snowasanadult.jpg

Winter and being able to not give a fuck, even at times I feel like its justified

Snow

Snow. Fuck snow.

Snow, ice, fog. Fuck Winter soo hard.

 

[jsnepo]

summer
rain
waking up
Sundays

 

[Summer Haze]

Life.

Came here to post this.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Joys as an adult vs being a child

Adult
Beer
Sex
and
Being able to buy yourself toys without having to wait for Christmas or birthdays


Child
Christmas
and
Everything else

 

[adamsapple]

Fucking jobs .. having to suck up to pricks less qualified than me but in higher positions.

 

[Chariot]

Joys as an adult vs being a child

Adult
Beer
Sex
and
Being able to buy yourself toys without having to wait for Christmas or birthdays

Yeah, but you have to work for this shit

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

When we are young we can't wait until we grow up, and when we are old we want to go back and enjoy childhood.

 

[Mask]

Being born in the UK, I've always wanted to visit a Chuck E Cheese after one of my mates from school told me about it after his holiday.

Now I'm too old to go there on my own, and I don't know anyone with kids to let me tag along with them to bypass that "No adults unless with kids" rule.

 

[Zombine]

I got that joy back knowing that I get paid to have summers off and I get every snow day/recess off. I'm thrilled.

This past summer was brutal, though. Having to work 8 hours and look out the window at the amazing weather was a drag. Never again in my life. It's too damn short to be stuck working all the time.