College is lots of fun. We're all on our owns for the first time ever and we're learning how to navigate the "real world" away from our parents. While we regularly experience a decent amount of adulting fails, it's important to remember that we're learning how to do things too and to celebrate the little victories that we achieve when we're #adulting well. Here are 11 moments of successful adulting that should have a little celebration to go along with them.
1. When you fill up your gas tank before the warning light comes on.
Bonus points if you have enough money to fill it up all the way.
2. When you wash, dry, fold, and put away all your laundry within the same day.
No, the chair doesn't count.
3. When you make real food on the stove and it turns out well.
No more microwaved pizza bagels for you!
4. When you call your grandmother.
As much as we know we should do it, we never seem to have enough time.
5. When you get up in time to get to an early shift at work.
Who schedules college students to open anyway?
6. When you buy (and eat) a vegetable.
Bonus points if it's not smothered in ranch.
7. When you pay your credit card bill on time.
Our parents didn't want us to get credit cards because they didn't think we could handle it, but here we are.
8. When you manage to keep a plant alive.
My succulents are not only surviving, they're growing. I'm one proud plant mama.
9. When you swipe your debit card at Nordstrom and it doesn't get declined.
Although the stress leading up to swiping it was almost enough to kill you anyway.
10. When you stop relying on your parents and start buying your own things.
In the last 6 months, I've bought myself a new phone, 4 plane tickets, lots of food and clothes, medicine, and much more. Although my wallet is a little angry, it's nice to have control over my situations.
11. When you make your own doctor's appointments and go to them yourself.
Making my own medical decisions was the single most exciting thing I was looking forward to when I turned 18.
Adulting is an awesome learning experience. While you have more freedom, you don't yet have to face all the consequences of bad decisions, and if you do, you don't have to face them alone. While it can be hard sometimes to know exactly what the right decision is, being a young adult is full of successes and failures and being able to learn from them is the most important part.
