u/Kitchen_Jicama_5781

I’m in my 20s and I keep waiting for the moment where I feel like a real adult, but it hasn’t happened.

I pay bills, handle appointments, work, make decisions, and do all the basic adult stuff. But internally I still feel like the same person who was guessing their way through school, except now the consequences are more expensive.

When I was younger, adults seemed like they knew what they were doing. Now I’m starting to think a lot of people are just figuring things out as they go and hiding the panic better.

So I’m genuinely curious: do people eventually start feeling like actual adults, or is adulthood mostly just learning how to function while still feeling unsure half the time?