40 Adult Problems That People Were Not Ready For

We can't possibly know how to everything once we reach adulthood, right?

Liezel

• Published in Funny
• April 8, 2022

Being an adult or adulting as they say is extremely difficult. We know it's not new and you've probably heard people complaining about it all your life but it's the hard truth.

Not just because you can earn your own money or make decisions without parental guidance does it mean that life gets easier. In fact, having all the responsibility for yourself is actually frustrating and hard.

Frankly, schools should have courses or lessons on how to be an adult. We, for one, would have gladly attended these lessons or have gone to every single seminar about it because there are tons of things we really have no clue about like how to actually properly pay taxes or how looking for a job really works.

Living day to day, dealing with everything we're expected to deal with as adults are stressful and it can sometimes be so overwhelming that you just want to hide away in a cave forever or at least for a little while. Think about it.

We have to feed ourselves, pay our bills, work for money, be healthy by exercising, maintain our social life, and work for our dreams. Isn't that a little too much for one person to handle?

Then, we have the problems that we weren't actually prepared for before we became fully-fledged adults. Redditors have been sharing what was theirs and let us tell you, it makes us cringe how much we can relate to a lot of these.

Keep reading on for the best ones.

You're lucky if you still have one or two buddies you can call up from time to time

We were definitely not prepared for that sinking feeling of disappointment

They should've prepared us how to deal with them so we wouldn't be so shocked

And as kids, we already thought the chores our parents made us do were already too much

Nothing can ever really prepare us for the reality of this

Plus, they will be there everywhere you go

We're not really aware of the signs until they hit us full in the face, sadly

The older we grow, the more loses we have to learn to deal with

It's one of those little everyday stresses

Generally body pains and how permanent they can become

It's nice to be needed but there is also a limit to how much you can handle

Add this to the toll it takes on your mental and physical health

This here is the kind of painful growth nobody tells us about

In adulthood, you get to see all the politics and hierarchy at play

Is it because we're the ones buying them now?

There is no way to prepare you for the loss of the person you though you'd spend your life with

You'll just never know when you'll meet the one so you just have to cherish every moment you have with them

Yes, no one ever really prepares us for the loneliness that adulthood can bring for some

We should have been taught to beat the system, not let it beat us

When we were kids, we thought all adults acted like adults but that was just a lie

Being social as an adult isn't as easy as they portray in the movies

Time seems to speed up as you keep growing older

Even sleep is not the easiest part of adulting

One of the most difficult parts of adulting is the compromises you have to make

Nothing could really prepare you for the shock of this

It's one of the most difficult things to actually see our parents growing old

Beyond 20, you'll already be going to war with your body

It's worse when you know you're too young to have pains like that

It's getting yourself together in a whole other way

Some people only grow up physically

They tell you to do good in school so you can get somewhere in life but after school, it's just wide open fields with no path

Insurances are just messed up

When we were younger, we though becoming an adult would mean more time for ourselves but it's actually the opposite

A lot of us realize that we don't actually want to spend time with a lot of our family members for various reasons

Just because it's a full time job doesn't mean that it pays well enough

People expect so much more out of you in adulting socializations

The first thing a lot of us say is "Excuse the mess"

It's not really easy to learn how to support others without exhausting yourself

It's such a small part of our body and yet it costs us so much

The anxiety of it stresses out a lot of us more

When we were young, older people always told us that life as an adult will be hard especially without our parents being the safety net for us. We'd have to learn how to take care of ourselves and everything around us on our own.

What we didn't realize then, however, was that there were so many things people couldn't exactly prepare us for. We just have to experience them and learn on the go.

Here's to hoping we can continue to deal with them as well as we have up until this point.

Liezel