Grown Up

16 Dec 2006
Grown Up

When do you grow up? I've been thinking about this lately. What makes a grown up? I was sitting on my couch last night eating my massive bowl of Tim Tam cereal (crushed up chocolate cookies with milk poured over the top, my favorite "I'm sooooo stoned" snack) and thinking to myself, "When will I grow up?"

When do you officially start to feel like a real, live, responsible adult? I see the whole range of "adults" at work...Doctors, concerned parents...not so concerned parents who I had to chase down to get them to bring their kids to the doctor...nurses, janitors, baristas, receptionists, the guy who picks cigarette butts out of the bushes outside...I work in the hospital. I see it all.
I go to work 5 days a week. I pay my bills. I take the pill. I clean my toilet and kiss my boyfriend and have beers with friends. Am I a grown up?

Does being a grown up mean getting married, having 2.5 kids, a house and a yellow lab? Does it mean pursuing your career, travelling around the planet, saving heaps of money?

Do you have to have all of the above?

Or any?