Something just didn’t feel right this morning. As you set your cup of coffee down next to your laptop with 15 programs running, you glance at your watch and realize it's 8 o clock in the morning. You shouldn’t even be awake right now. You should probably be in bed curled up with one of your ten pillow pets, or maybe eating a bowl of cereal watching Spongebob Squarepants. But no. You’re at your first grown up job—adulting.
You’ve traded in your comfy high school jeans and faded Aeropostale t-shirt for a tight pair of slacks and a fitted shirt that makes you slightly uncomfortable. Somehow you just don’t feel like yourself, a little too mature.
As you fight your way through traffic this morning, you keep your cool.
Then it happens... you have to enter through your first revolving door…you tell yourself to act natural—(it’s just a door), so you do your best to stay calm.
As you walk into the orientation room, you see everyone with their heads down eagerly scrolling through their phones or texting, remaining in their own little bubble. So you try to play it cool and casually introduce yourself to the person next to you.
About an hour into the lecture, you find yourself ready for a break. Then you look at the schedule—there isn’t a break scheduled for two more hours.
So you wait patiently as the next two hours slowly pass by and try to act interested in about 10 thousand policies and procedures.
By the time the day is over, you are ready for a nap, or maybe some chocolate. Life as an adult is not all it’s cracked up to be.You contemplate whether the adult life is for you, or if you maybe need to reconsider your options.
Later, as you are at the park with your little sis, someone comments on how cute your kid is.
After explaining that you are not the parent, you proceed to give the slides a go.
After coming home, you cook macaroni and cheese for dinner and maybe even toast to a juice box.
That night, as you wonder how you will survive the adult world, you cuddle up with your favorite pillow pet and go to sleep, realizing that you may never fully grow up, and that is OK.
