society would have me believe that yes, i am indeed an adult. i mean after all i am fully grown, twenty-four years old, classed as unemployed and look at pornography...
but nobody can explain what it feels like to be an adult, i feel no different now than i did ten years ago when i was apparently a teenager, or from years before that when i would have been explained away as a child (although i suppose i was less insecure and afraid of the future back then, but that doesn't make me an adult).
so what the hell is an adult then?
i always thought adulthood was the time in your life when you could do more stuff, when you waved goodbye to age restrictions, had sex with everyone and watched horror movies when i was a kid but now i just don't know.
technically and bioligically there's nothing preventing people from doing those last two things when they're children, and you don't have to be past a certain age limit to ignore it, look at all the supposed underage drinking, smoking, sex and watching of "adult" themed television shows and movies that's going on these days.
if being an adult just means being able to do something and not get told off for it then wouldn't society just be better off if everyone was a child? but then if there were no adults then who would tell us off? it would be utter chaos.
so by using that theory an adult is a person that imposes restrictions and stops people from doing what they want to do, well if that's what being an adult really is about then screw it, i don't want to be an adult.
the adult world is shit, it's full of complicated stuff like laws, jobs, money, relationships, housing, mortgages, marriage, the "future", driving, responsibility, babies and dying.
i haven't got a job, i haven't got any money, i'm not and nor have i ever been in a relationship, i live with my parents, i'm in the south of england so i wouldn't be able to afford a mortgage on my own, i can't get married unless i meet somebody, i can't see a future for myself, i don't drive, i hate responsibility, i can't have babies on my own and i'm afraid of dying, and all of this is because i'm an adult.
as a kid i can't get a job and have no real need for money, i hate girls, my parents look after me, i can't even spell mortgage let alone know what it is, i can't get married because i hate girls, i think the future is going to be like the transformers and i'll drive a flying car and get robots to do things for me, babies are for girls and i HATE girls and nobody is honest with me about death... "hammy has gone to heaven to play with all the other hamsters" well if we had bought all the hamsters in the pet shop like i wanted he could have stayed HERE and played with the other hamsters damnit!
if somebody reading this knows what being an adult actually is then please, don't tell me, i don't want to be one.
-boyd