Do you ever feel like

[julez]

everyone else around you is a grown-up but you haven't quite arrived yet?

Yeah.  I'm feeling like that a lot lately.

[Deleted]

So funny that you should mention this. I spotted a typo in a case file today where the aide had typed "BOOBIE" instead of "bobbie" and for some reason nobody else thought it was as funny as I did.

I laughed for like 5 whole minutes. Everyone else apparently has some maturity that I'm missing.

[Deleted]

All the time.

[ginap]

All the time. I sometimes look at C and am like how on earth did they send you home with me - I am so not a competent enough adult to be a mom.

[Bernadine]

Yup. I still can't believe I was able to refinance my house all on my own. There's no way I feel 31.

[wowhead]

All the time! I'm just a 12 year old living in an adult body.

[wambam]

Every time I look at FB.

All these bishes I graduated high school and college with are busy buying houses and making people and I'm over here like "I'm a lazy fuck at my job, and I just want to lift heavy things and spend obscene amounts of money on food."

[Jalapeñomel]

Especially when people talk about houses and daycare on here, lol.

[Kristinmo]

Aug 20, 2013 11:21:23 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

I've felt like that since I got married. Like I'm just playing house or something. It's weird.

Yep. I'm 30, married, 2 kids and own a home but I still feel like I'm not an adult.

[Deleted]

No, but only because my friends are just as non grown-up as I am.  I hope to stay age-inappropriate for a very long time.

[bcv513]

All the time.

[CurlyQ284]

Yes. Especially when I see other moms at DSs daycare. They look so much more grown up. I also look like I'm 12 so that doesn't help.

[Deleted]

I know that I have done a lot of things that most 25 year olds have not. However, sometimes I feel like I'm just a little kid holding my husband's hand as he drags me along through life.

I know this isn't true but it just feels like it. What blows my mind even more is that when I finish with school, people will call me doctor. It will be all I can do not to laugh my ass off. I do NOT feel like a doctor of anything.

[julez]

Aug 20, 2013 11:22:41 GMT -5 panicfoot said:

I do, but I don't think anyone else has their shit together either.

If they don't, maybe it's just that they pretend they do better than I do. 

[Deleted]

This is my state of being.

[papie]

Not really. I feel old these days, lol. But generally quite accomplished. And sometimes I feel more grown-up than my parents. But FTR, my mom says they called me yiayia (grandma) already when I was a toddler, soooooo...

[eddy]

All the time.
I work with people who are older than me. And it always seems in many crowds were the youngins because we had kids so much earlier. So like last night at the school ice cream social we were def in the minority age wise.

Because of that I alwasy feel like those people are grown ups. And I am...something else lol.

[joshlyman]

Allll the time. It doesn't help that most of my friends are married with kids and houses.

[Deleted]

I am definitely am grown up, and I have enough objective proof of it that I feel grown up. BUT I often think it is a huge mistake.

Last week, DH came to my office in board shorts and a baseball cap to have some papers for our new home notarized. I was wearing a jean jumper and trying to get to the gym The notary, a secretary at the firm, was wearing a button down and nice pants. It definitely struck me as odd that I was the partner buying a one and a half million dollar house and he was literally my employee.

[shostakovich]

Nearly every day.

[Deleted]

Most days.

[Deleted]

All the time. I feel like I'm pretending. I'm sure that when the baby comes I'll be wondering where her parents are and then it'll hit me that I'm the mom, not the sitter.

[DaisyCakes]

All the time. I feel like I'm too young and irresponsible to start having kids...then I'm like, shit, when did I turn 29....

[pittsmcgee]

Pretty much every day. Especially when I see other people's houses, etc.

[BaliHai]

Pretty much always, but that's because I *know* H and I wasted a lot of time in our 20s, choosing fun over responsibility and choosing to just get by instead of working our way up and out. I will be 28 next month and it's just been this year that we've started to really move forward with life.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I do not like the title of this post.

[Deleted]

All the time. I feel like I am finally *starting* to grow up and I am dragging DH kicking and screaming behind me.

[Deleted]

Aug 20, 2013 13:05:04 GMT -5 BaliHai said:

Pretty much always, but that's because I *know* H and I wasted a lot of time in our 20s, choosing fun over responsibility and choosing to just get by instead of working our way up and out. I will be 28 next month and it's just been this year that we've started to really move forward with life.

There is nothing wrong with this. I'm you plus 10 years with a 4 year old and I wouldn't change a minute of my 20's they were a blast and I am glad that I got to have them. We only get to live this life once and I would have rather had tons of fun than have been a responsible adult every minute.

[shadynasty]

Yup. People I went to high school with are starting to have babies and buy houses and stuff. I get jealous sometimes (of the house thing, not the babies) and feel like I'm a failure because I'm struggling to finish my Master's thesis and I don't have a "real" job.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Not in real life, most of the time.

But here? Every day.