I'm an Adult Now

[MetalPants]

There are all sort of social ideas about when a person is an adult, such as when one gets their first job, when they are old enough to vote, when they leave their parents' home, or when they first have sex.

So how do you define being an adult?

 

[Lindley]

When you no longer need to ask your parents for money it's a good start.

 

[Jadzia]

Being an adult is the freedom to choose your own destiny. Hopefully being old enough and wise enough to understand the responsibilities that come with that.

 

[ares93]

Being an adult is the freedom to choose your own destiny. Hopefully being old enough and wise enough to understand the responsibilities that come with that.

Quoted for truth.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

When you no longer need to ask your parents for money it's a good start.

Actually it's when your parents ask YOU for money.

 

[F. King Daniel]

How do you define being an adult?

I don't know. When I was growing up, I always thought that one day everything would just klick into place and I'd be an all-understanding adult - but I'm 27, and I'm still waiting. I do grown up stuff, but I don't "feel" grown up. I feel like a kid pretending to be a grown up.

If I hadn't asked this very question myself about a decade ago, and heard several people say the exact same thing, I'd be somewhat worried.

 

[RandyS]

Like everything else, it's all relative. In the States, you're legally an adult at 21, but for me, that was twenty years ago and I still feel like a kid.

Of course, it helps that I absolutely refuse to mature. Nope. Not me. Uh-uh.

 

[TheSeeker]

How do you define being an adult?

I don't know. When I was growing up, I always thought that one day everything would just klick into place and I'd be an all-understanding adult - but I'm 27, and I'm still waiting. I do grown up stuff, but I don't "feel" grown up. I feel like a kid pretending to be a grown up.

If I hadn't asked this very question myself about a decade ago, and heard several people say the exact same thing, I'd be somewhat worried.

I know what you mean. I'm almost 40, I'm married, have a baby and a mortgage and I still get a kick out of being able to buy beer.

 

[Holdfast]

So how do you define being an adult?

When you have enough potential beneficiaries, money and time that you're able to spend some of the latter two cutting some of the former out of your will...

 

[PianoWizzy]

Being an adult is the freedom to choose your own destiny. Hopefully being old enough and wise enough to understand the responsibilities that come with that.

Really? I obviously grew up waaaay too early then. D:

 

[Sector 7]

Like everything else, it's all relative. In the States, you're legally an adult at 21, but for me, that was twenty years ago and I still feel like a kid.

Of course, it helps that I absolutely refuse to mature. Nope. Not me. Uh-uh.

In the United States you are legally an adult at age 18. That is the age at when you can legally sign documents and contracts for yourself, be charged as an adult for criminal behavior, rent an apartment, etc.

The next milestone is 21, at which time you can buy alcoholic beverages. My aunt called me on my 21st birthday to tell me that I was now legal. I replied by saying, "Legal to do what? I don't drink and I'm not a virgin." Being a ve-e-e-ery conservative Christian, she feigned shock at my statement. Mission accomplished!

 

[captcalhoun]

i suppose i'm an adult, since i'm 32, but i still act and feel like a kid.

collectng GI Joe and Action Force stuff from the '80s helps...

... as does taking them out in the garden to take pictures...

 

[SPCTRE]

So how do you define being an adult?

One day, you just wake up and know you're a tucker. Boom. You're an adult now.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NgAI-1_S3I[/yt]

 

[Captain_Nick]

this is a great topic. at 29, i never felt like a 'real' adult

like a couple of others have said, adulthood is when you develop wisdom and maturity. in that regard i am a little behind the eight ball.

 

[The Castellan]

Like everything else, it's all relative. In the States, you're legally an adult at 21, but for me, that was twenty years ago and I still feel like a kid.

Of course, it helps that I absolutely refuse to mature. Nope. Not me. Uh-uh.

In the United States you are legally an adult at age 18. That is the age at when you can legally sign documents and contracts for yourself, be charged as an adult for criminal behavior, rent an apartment, etc.

The next milestone is 21, at which time you can buy alcoholic beverages. My aunt called me on my 21st birthday to tell me that I was now legal. I replied by saying, "Legal to do what? I don't drink and I'm not a virgin." Being a ve-e-e-ery conservative Christian, she feigned shock at my statement. Mission accomplished!

Never understood the whole 21 to drink nonsense.....at 18 you can vote, work full time, have sex with that hot older person finally without cops and courts sticking their nose in your business, smoke, and go in the army and come home in a box......but don't DARE think about touching a drop of booze for another 3 years....so the person who can work full time and die for his or her country can't drink, and because of that, go to clubs, casinos, and strip joints.

So, at 18, you're an adult, but NOT an adult.....so whomever made it where ya gotta be 21 to drink is an IDIOT.....especially since I don't know ANYONE who waits that long to drink. Why do you think Canada, Mexico and Europe are popular Spring Break locations....the the scenery and culture....nope...cause the drinking ages are much lower there, as well as the ages for other things. When I was 21, I was no different that when I was 18. It's like, -sarcastic tone- "Yea....those past 3 years really were what I needed to learn how to drink....hey, there goes a 45 year old, hammered, in his car, right now."

Am I the only one who thinks the same with me here?

 

[Sector 7]

^I do not think there are many who think the same with you... on many subjects.

Hopefully, most young people will gain enough maturity, in those 3 years, to not drink and drive. The rates of highway deaths due to young drunk drivers dropped significantly when the drinking age was raised to 21. NO ONE should drink and drive at any age.

 

[ThankQ]

There are all sort of social ideas about when a person is an adult, such as when one gets their first job, when they are old enough to vote, when they leave their parents' home, or when they first have sex.

So how do you define being an adult?

With a name like MetalPants, I'm not sure you're ever truly an adult

 

[scotpens]

. . . Of course, it helps that I absolutely refuse to mature. Nope. Not me. Uh-uh.

There's a word for people like that. They're called "guys."

Seriously, just because you acquire the wisdom to make your own way in the world and to be responsible for yourself, that doesn't mean you have to give up the good things about childhood. Like laughing at doo-doo and pee-pee jokes. And having a room full of spaceship models. (Boy, there's a chick magnet!)

 

[RoJoHen]

When you are able to schedule your own dentist appointments without your mom reminding you to do it.

So far, I am not an adult.

 

[The Castellan]

^I do not think there are many who think the same with you... on many subjects.

Hopefully, most young people will gain enough maturity, in those 3 years, to not drink and drive. The rates of highway deaths due to young drunk drivers dropped significantly when the drinking age was raised to 21. NO ONE should drink and drive at any age.

And yet note that so many under 21's....18-20 go to Canada and Mexico to drink on the weekends.

To me, I see no fairness at having to wait 3 more years after becoming a legal adult. It's like...ok..I'm 18 and can FINALLY get laid...but I can't drink, go to bars, go to clubs, or casinos....so looks like the chastity belt is still on me....plus the fact that the states got blackmailed to do it....where they are old...you don't NEED to raise the age..but we'll cur your high way/road funding if you do! And seeing how the roads here in Michigan are like the surface of the moon, I see no real difference if the drinking age was not raised. And I see TONS of so-called mature middle aged drivers getting hammered and driving away, my aunt being one of them.

I've got the European way of thinking.....teach the kids to drink BEFORE they learn to drive. Because right now, I see kids going, at 21, "OH MY GOD, I'M DRINKING!!!!!!" It's like in America it's such a huge coming of age deal....when I hit 21, it was no different than me when I was 14 or 15 when I had my first drink that I can remember.

Plus if people wanna make a small economic boost, lower the drinking age, and you'll reap in a ton of tax money from liqueur sales, plus money spent in the adult establishments that 18-20 years old are barred from...rather than Canada and Mexico getting our money.

And hell.....I think the best time showing how the 21 age law is such a joke is that if than President Bush's own daughters pretty much told the drinking age to go piss off.....think how many millions other like them think the same. Plus I'd rather see cops spending time busting some real criminals, rather than some teenagers having a few beers. Not to mention.....find any college kid ages 17-20, and try to find one who does not go for a nip of something, since college can be stressful, especially if they got jobs on the side.

I do not think there are many who think the same with you... on many subjects.

And I am very, very thankful for that, Sector 7.