Beyond just waking up one day and seeing a strand of beard already propped up below your chin or noticing that the small lumps of flesh on your chest have suddenly grown to become round pulpy oranges, there are certain things that have and or that will come at you big time and leave you wondering if truly you agreed with your organs to grow up this fast.
The reality of attaining the adulthood status will hit you so slowly but fast! OVERWHELMING is the word that comes to mind as the array of uncertainties that lay ahead of you, dance to the melody of your mental guitar and drums playing tunes up in your head.
It is at this stage that you then begin to truly realize that you do not know who you truly are, what you want or how to go about even being the adult you always dreamt of being. It is at this point that you then begin to realize that all the dreams you ever had or all the eagerness to grow up that you ever nursed should have probably waited a little longer. At the moment, you feel the pressure, uncertainties, responsibilities, confusion, complexities, emotions all crashing down upon you and leaving you with all the weight to bear.
In this period, you feel your energy fluctuating and your belief twinkling. At this point, you don’t want to grow up so fast anymore. You begin to wonder if you can even go on or whether you can actually pull through. You either try to get past questions from seniors in the school of adulthood and try to create a pathway for yourself or you decide to “rough it” and do your thing yourself.
The phase of adulthood has several hurdles that surrounds it, several complexities that bind it and several athletes of confusion and frustration running around it. At this point, you’ll be hard on yourself, you will want to try, you might be weak, you will want to quit. Sometimes, you just want to go back in your infant or childhood shell and hide. Away from all of life and adulthoods problems.
At this stage, due to different problems, you start to find ways to either solve these problems or kill your pain. I know that at this point you can relate but are probably wondering how facing the reality of adulthood plays a part in resolution making.
The demanding and dynamic nature of the adulthood phase will definitely lead one to at one point or the other make resolutions and determinations to help achieve ultimate goals. After all, life is a process! And one has to deal with it so regardless of how much we dream to get young all over again. We still at least hold the firm belief that “I will grow up…SOMEDAY” to assure ourselves that it is a process and well get used to it.