How does one, become an adult ?

[jackangel]

farm animals and plenty of lube is probably the fastest way i know

 

[Cutiebaby]

-when you go to a bar and suddenly feel old
-when someone asks how old you are and you hesitate before you say it
-when you start watching HGTV and dream about home projects

....just kidding. I am not sure when it happens, but it does or it did. I don't know - I am of no help here.

my mom watched HGTV all the time..Her favorite words are "I'm gonna do........" Everthing she sees on there she is going to do to her house..
You forgot to include driving 20 mph on main roads and 45 on highway
listening to old music such as loretta lynn

 

[needtogetaas]

farm animals and plenty of lube is probably the fastest way i know

yup thast how I did it.

 

[EnderJE]

Dude, of all the places to ask this question, you choose HERE?!

 

[Chaddycakes]

Lol I like this^^^ Very good point.

 

[bran987]

many of the adults that are giving you advice hate their lives. we all think we get wiser as we get older, but we just deal with the same emotions differently. I'm 26 and I've been through you're situation and many girlfriends and almost to marriage and I'm really leaning back toward being 19 again because the society of get married in your early 20's and kill your dreams for the sake of the american family is not going to happen to me. There's a reason most marriages are ending in divorce now and it's people getting married too young who've been coddled their whole lives and haven't experienced enough to grow up, nooooot even close. I've been around a lot of people..... a lot of people with a lot of advice....... TinyTanky keep playing around, here is the thing....

STOP GETTING INTO FIGHTS WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK OR YOU WILL END UP DEAD OR IN JAIL. YOU HAVE TO STOP THAT.

never do anything (that'll have a long-term effect) you'll have to look back on and think, why did I get myself into this, was I pushed into this or did I really want it? I'm back on chicks again now, because I'm chiefly of the opinion that more of mens' dreams are killed by a ring and a subsequent life long guilt trip than by any other mechanism in the american existence. do this do that be home by this time don't travel you have a kid now be responsible there are more important things in life you have to change now where are your priorities money isn't everything you don't need the promotion why do you want to start your own business and put our savings in jeopardy who do you think you are???????? meanwhile you wake up and you're 45 thinking HOW DID THIS HAPPEN I HAD A PLAN!!!! the sad fact of the matter is that most women are dreamkillers.. last line stolen from leykis. btw britain is just like a weird america so you're at risk just the same.

 

[awittyusername]

many of the adults that are giving you advice hate their lives. we all think we get wiser as we get older, but we just deal with the same emotions differently. I'm 26 and I've been through you're situation and many girlfriends and almost to marriage and I'm really leaning back toward being 19 again because the society of get married in your early 20's and kill your dreams for the sake of the american family is not going to happen to me. There's a reason most marriages are ending in divorce now and it's people getting married too young who've been coddled their whole lives and haven't experienced enough to grow up, nooooot even close. I've been around a lot of people..... a lot of people with a lot of advice....... TinyTanky keep playing around, here is the thing....

STOP GETTING INTO FIGHTS WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK OR YOU WILL END UP DEAD OR IN JAIL. YOU HAVE TO STOP THAT.

never do anything (that'll have a long-term effect) you'll have to look back on and think, why did I get myself into this, was I pushed into this or did I really want it? I'm back on chicks again now, because I'm chiefly of the opinion that more of mens' dreams are killed by a ring and a subsequent life long guilt trip than by any other mechanism in the american existence. do this do that be home by this time don't travel you have a kid now be responsible there are more important things in life you have to change now where are your priorities money isn't everything you don't need the promotion why do you want to start your own business and put our savings in jeopardy who do you think you are???????? meanwhile you wake up and you're 45 thinking HOW DID THIS HAPPEN I HAD A PLAN!!!! the sad fact of the matter is that most women are dreamkillers.. last line stolen from leykis. btw britain is just like a weird america so you're at risk just the same.

Best post on Elite in a very long time

I have nothing to add, but say I agree 100% on everything bran said

 

[GoldenDelicious]

bunch of faggots in this thread

youre biologically an adult when you reach sexual maturity.

youre legally an adult whenever your age meets whatever arbitrary minimum requirement your government imposes.

theres lots of crossover in this thread because of the different meanings of "adult", "man" as well as different concepts of family units/independance.

all the people saying that youre a man when you are financially independant blablabla...what a load of shit. learn the difference between being "a" man and simply being socioeconomically viable. all the people correlating adulthood with responsibility, shut up as well. there are such things as irresponsible, non-viable adults. also, there are some cultures in which living with parents until marriage etc etc are normal, acceptable practices. this shit is so subjective as to be virtually meaningless.

for fucks sake people we have this great big beautiful english language to use but noooooo, we have to use different inflections of the same word instead of actually quantifying what the fuck we are talking about. "im a man" "no youre not" "well your man is different to my man" "yeah well my man will beat up your man" "oh be an adult" "oh but im 19, i am" ffs

TT stop jumping through the hoops that society teaches you to, make up your own mind about things, and make your way in the world however you see fit - regardless of wealth, partners, status, or a broken bottle to the jugular. youre just you and thats all youre ever going to be.

this sagacious post was brought ot you by GoldenDelicious, fortune cookie collector extraordinairre

 

[Mr. dB]

bunch of faggots in this thread

youre biologically an adult when you reach sexual maturity.

youre legally an adult whenever your age meets whatever arbitrary minimum requirement your government imposes.

...[much hogwash edited for brevity]...

But biological and legal adulthood have nothing to do with emotional or cognitive maturity. Cognitive development is not complete at 19.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

But biological and legal adulthood have nothing to do with emotional or cognitive maturity.

my point precisely

sif you called it hogwash lol fuck you deebs