The adulting life on a deeper sense.
ADULTING MEANING – Many are confused about this as to how they navigate life in this chapter and in embracing this, here are some things to know.
In peeking through the lens of how transition to adulthood happens, things are a bit more complicated, a bit more serious, and to some, there are tons of pressure. From the responsibilities we need to prioritize to the achievements we chase, the upskills we need, the life with a family of your own, and many other things.
A trip around the sun and stepping into this phase will not give you instantly more wisdom and maturity, right? Traditionally, adulthood is when you are already at a phase where you already finish your education, leaving home, finding work, finding a life partner, and having children. But all of these doesn’t happen in a snap and you are not gifted with some instant special skills to cope with all of these if you are just an emerging adult.
Researcher and psychology professor Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, PhD, said that becoming an adult is accepting responsibility for oneself and making independent decisions. He also noted financial independence and only when these three are achieved adulthood happens.
There are several skills to prepare you to adulthood but knowing them doesn’t stop there.
How to adult? It’s a question hard to answer as this is subjective. For some, the most essential is to have financial literacy such as making investments, saving up for retirement, emergency funds, budgeting, cash reserves, avoiding debts, and many others.
To others, to be an adult is to know how to keep good people in their life and get rid of the bad ones while a portion believes that a major part to prepare for adulthood is knowing significant life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and others.
Generally, adulthood is about balancing home, health and wellness, finances, personal life, career, and other life areas. It is worth noting that being an adult does not mean you know everything already. Learn how to sit with discomfort, stand up from a failure, clear your confusions, embrace yourself (flaws and all), seeing the lessons in pain, and the beauty in the unpleasant things in life.
Life itself is a never-ending journey of learning and self-discovery.
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