The answer to the title is: definitely DO NOT ADULT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE!
Now, most of us in college are "technically" adults, but that is only because we are at least 18 years old. That is literally the only thing that makes some of us adults. I am 21 years old and I sometimes still find myself saying, "Okay I need an adult to help with this," only to then realize that I am an adult and have no idea what the hell is going on.
Before some of you freak out and call me a child or any other fitting title like that, hear me out.
I am not saying that we should always act like children, but that we should enjoy the part of our lives where we do not have crazy responsibilities for as long as possible.
What I am saying is that college is supposed to be the time of your life where you get to do all of the exciting things before you have to go into the real world and put all of the fun things about life on hold.
Let me give you an example:
I have what I consider to be one of the best jobs ever, a summer camp counselor. My summer consists of 40 hour weeks where I am outside for 30 of those hours. During those 30 hours, I am swimming, playing sports, making crafts, and making sure kids have a great summer. Does any of that sound like adult stuff? No, and that's the point. I could get an internship and get everyone and their mother coffee and sit at a desk for hours on end going brain dead. However, even though that looks good on a job application, it does not seem good to me. When I'm 50 years old, I don't want to remember sitting behind a desk since I was 21. I want to remember all of the fun things I did before I had to put my big boy pants on.
"Adulting" is not limited to jobs either. Things like having to find a person that you are going to marry at this age sounds crazy to me. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people who find their soulmate at this age, but I don't really think I want that (yet). I wanna have fun. I wanna go to the bars until 3 a.m. and not have to worry about texting someone the whole time. I want to be able to do what I want, when I want.
I don't want to sound selfish or anything, but I lost a good chunk of my "golden" years because I was too depressed to do anything fun. I was too afraid of being judged or made fun of. Now, I don't care about ANYTHING someone thinks about me. Now ,I am ready to have fun and get some of those experiences I didn't get to have yet.
So, I hope that maybe reading this has helped some of you freaking out about growing up, that we still have time to have fun. Responsibility will still be knocking at our door for a while, and we will answer it eventually.
Yours Truly,
Ryan Jordan.
