Adulthood (na scam)

"Adulthood isn't what we always expected it to be while we were young."

There is a viral video currently trending in Nigeria. It is a short music video sang by a talented artiste lade titled Adulthood. She is known to be the singer of the popular Airtel advert song 444.

When we're kids, we think about adulthood as an abrupt point in life where everything changes overnight. We become an adult and suddenly get to do all the fun things that we were not allowed to do when we were younger. We start to see adulthood as an accomplishment that requires a lot of hard work.

We thought that adulthood would be fun, cool, and exciting. It would be the time of our lives. The time to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. We don't really have any rules right? Well, it turns out that adulthood is none of those things.

Sure, we always wanted the freedom to do whatever we wanted. The good thing is, we are free to do whatever we want. The bad thing is, we aren't under constant supervision anymore and there is no one to make sure that we do what we're supposed to do.

It wasn't too long ago that we were growing up as kids. Our parents were pretty much our heroes, because they did everything to protect us from any harm and teach us to be good. As we grew up, we left those days behind and became adults.

But, as we grow older, we learn what it means to be an adult. We eventually realize that there's no such thing as being an adult and that when we talk about adulthood, we are talking about a complex range of responsibilities that includes your career, your relationships, your finances and more.

To be honest, I have no idea how I grew up to be this type of adult. I technically did all the things I was supposed to do, but somehow I never ended up as the person I thought I would be when I grew up.

And then one day you wake up and you realize that you're struggling with the exact same stuff you struggled with when you were a kid

One of the biggest struggles of growing up is the general feeling that your life is never going to be perfect no matter how hard you try. That feeling is amplified when you find yourself standing in your room wearing a suit on the day of your college graduation. You expected graduation to be a turning point in your life, but instead it just feels like a weird moment that you don't know how to respond to.

Adulthood is often perceived as a time of great responsibility and high status. The truth is that adulthood doesn't always work that way. In fact, Adulthood is designed to give you tools and resources to better navigate the hurdles of life that aren't tied to a title or age.

We need to accept the fact that real adulthood has nothing to do with age, because it is about time, maturity, and more importantly choices.

In order to be independent, you should be capable of making your own decisions since you were a child. We do not need a guardian dishing out our daily life and constantly bothering about the kind of things we eat, the type of relationships we have and the way we dress up.

The real fact about adulthood is that it's not a line you cross or an age you turn. It's just a bunch of small benchmarks that you reach when you're good and ready. It's the day you stop playing with Legos, but keep all your toys. It's when you stop asking your mom to do your laundry, but try your best not to spill anything on yourself. It's when you pay your own phone bill and your own rent, and maybe even have a roommate of your own.

It's when you make all of your own choices, good ones and bad ones. It's when you say goodbye to being able to complain about things without doing anything about them. It's when you start realizing that this is it, this is the rest of your life, and it's up to you what you do with it.

It's adulthood.

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