Feeling like an adult
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:37 pm
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/88944/
I went off to college in a new state at 18 and moved across the world for two years from 21-23, but I can pinpoint the beginning of my real, actual adult life to a two-week period of time when I was 24. I'm sure I felt like an adult at various points before then, but that's when everything kind of coalesced into real adulthood.
An inciting incident, you might say, was when my grandmother went into the hospital and we thought she was going to die. For various reasons I was the only family member who was emotionally and geographically able to drive down to be there. I'm the baby of the family so it was one of the first times I needed to take care of my family in a major way instead of them taking care of me. Even though she recovered it was a very sobering experience.
Right after that, Marx and I said we loved each other for the first time, I got seriously drunk for the first time (to counterbalance the sobriety of the previous incident?), and I began to come to terms with the fact that my faith was gone and it wasn't coming back.
I went off to college in a new state at 18 and moved across the world for two years from 21-23, but I can pinpoint the beginning of my real, actual adult life to a two-week period of time when I was 24. I'm sure I felt like an adult at various points before then, but that's when everything kind of coalesced into real adulthood.
An inciting incident, you might say, was when my grandmother went into the hospital and we thought she was going to die. For various reasons I was the only family member who was emotionally and geographically able to drive down to be there. I'm the baby of the family so it was one of the first times I needed to take care of my family in a major way instead of them taking care of me. Even though she recovered it was a very sobering experience.
Right after that, Marx and I said we loved each other for the first time, I got seriously drunk for the first time (to counterbalance the sobriety of the previous incident?), and I began to come to terms with the fact that my faith was gone and it wasn't coming back.