/lit/ - Literature

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>When I was a young child, I thought adults knew everything. This is, perhaps, one of the biggest misconceptions I held as a child. I thought that I would surely know everything about the world when I turned eighteen, just like all the other adults I had known in my life. My mom seemed to know the answer to every question I asked her. And, being particularly inquisitive as a child, I tended to ask a lot of questions. It was my assumption that, upon becoming an adult, one suddenly knew everything about how the world works. I figured that paying bills, navigating city streets, going to work, and other such “adult-like” things would be second nature to me by then.
>I longed to be an adult. I longed to know the answer to every conceivable question, to be able to dissect life itself, to be able to open it up and examine its inner workings. I imagined constantly what my adult life would be like. It seemed so far away.
>I was largely unaware of how quickly I would be thrust into adult life, and I didn’t realize how soon it would come. One moment, I was a child - the next, a teenager, and finally, in the blink of an eye, I was an adult. For some, the transition might be a bit more natural. I’m not sure. But for me, it was abrupt.