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The secret to being an adult

January 19, 2016 by Mona Andrei 9 Comments

The secret to being an adult

Good day to you, awesome readers!

If you’re anything like me, you may remember a time when as kids, we couldn’t wait to grow up. In hindsight, WHAT WERE WE THINKING?

Acting like an adult is cumbersome. It’s also exhausting. But I’m about to share a little secret with you. In my many years of adulthood practice (like medical practice but with less patients and more ‘oops’), I’ve come to realize that the only way to succeed at adulthood is to follow a highly developed strategy. I call this strategy “fake it ‘till you make it.”

Here’s what faking adulthood looks like from my perspective:

I pay my bills and help my kids with homework … Well sort of. I ask my kids if they’ve done their homework. (In my defense, today’s math is beyond me.)

Have you done your homework

I also take care of my yard and clean my house occasionally. Sometimes I even cook. Although if you come over for dinner you may call it something else. Like defrosting a frozen pizza.

I’m never, ever depressed and always happy. I also never beat myself up about anything. Ha!

When I’m really on a roll with my adultness, I make plans for a secure future and write elaborate to-do lists. Honest to goodness, I do this. And to prove it, I have a file FULL of plans and lists … somewhere.

And just when I’ve fooled myself into believing that I’ve reached a new height in my adulthood practice, I realize that really, being an adult is just going in circles and doing the same things over and over again.

I have to vacuum

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Filed Under: Aging and its niceties, mom adventures, Pretending to be a grown-up Tagged With: adulthood, how to be an adult

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  1. Maja Asgautsen says

    January 19, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Great post. And your drawings make me smile.

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 8:27 pm

      Thanks, Maja 🙂

      Reply
  2. Eva says

    January 19, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    Definitely chasing ones tail…oh well…

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 20, 2016 at 1:29 pm

      Round and round we go!

      Reply
  3. Leona Caputo says

    January 20, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    I wake up (almost) every morning with the intention of being a better grown-up that day. I’ll let you know if I ever actually follow through with it. 😛

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 20, 2016 at 3:40 pm

      Baby steps, Leona. Baby steps 🙂

      Reply
  4. Karen McDonough says

    January 22, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Ha! I hate adulthood. 😉

    Reply
  5. Lesley Donaldson-Reid says

    February 3, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    Growing up sometimes sucks… but I think I’m having more fun now than I did when I was a kid. I just have to balance that with a lot of sh*t.

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      March 17, 2016 at 5:34 pm

      Yup, me too!

      Reply

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