I don't want to be an adult anymore

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I feel like three kids in a Trenchcoat. Being an adult is boring. Does it ever stop being so freaking boring? I wanna run around and be a kid again. I don't want all these responsibilities. I don't want emails to find me well.

I don't want to watch my words and speak oh so politely through a filter. I don't want to watch how I speak to make sure my original accent doesn't slip through so I don't get judged as 'not a real local'.

Is this really it? Does this feeling ever go away?

*Screams*

Stuff being a sophisticated lady I want to be an immature child. I want to be free.

I think it's hard becoming a adult because when you become an adult you might start to put restrictions on yourself because you're getting older and then it's like you forget all the things you liked to do before. But you are the same person inside

I dunno really. You're an adult for way longer than you're a child so it might just take a bit more practice at settling into it

I hope you can find something fun to do to just add a bit of balance in your life

No.

Every once in a while there will be a few seconds of happy, but mostly it is boring...except when it is horrible.

When you get contentment, however, that is sort of like "happy."

Thanks BB,

This thread was...let's say inspired...by receiving a list of interview questions that I'll need to answer in my upcoming interview. I looked at the list, questioned if I even wanted the job and decided to give up and have a nap instead. Then I woke up and cried.

Let me tell you, this list is something else. It is the most nonsensical corporate pile of garbage. Why can't I just have questions to determine if I would be competent at the job? What do you mean how do I incorporate the company values in my day to day life? Your corporate values are just basic human decency. What would you even have me say? Oh well I didn't kick any puppies today, mission accomplished?

It's so daft.

*Sighs*

What did I even like to do as a kid? I was so morbid back then. Plus I was depressed for a good while. I used to think I just had a bad run, but since I've learned that my cousin has been bullied in similar ways to me in the same ol' school...maybe it was more systemic than I had previously realised. He wants to leave as soon as he can and I do not blame him.

...What did I want out of adulthood back when I was a child? I'm going to have a think on that one.

That's intriguing LD.
Where are you from?

I sometimes think job interviews and application forms are just a contest for the most imaginative and bravest answers and not so much as for who might be the best person for the job

I mean I don't even think these people could sensibly answer their own questions

I've been for interviews for cleaning jobs and other low skilled, low paid jobs and some of the questions and scenarios were like trying to get into mensa

it can be soul destroying

I wonder if there like a correlation between being a depressed child and being a bored adult

Wow, don't we all want to be young again?



Why not try something you used to enjoy doing as a kid on your free time? I know I want to, too. It will at least make your life more balanced, I believe. Enbracing your inner child while also take responsibilities as an adult.

I grew up in the North and became a Midlander. My accent is a mix of the two and I do sometimes intentionally speak more Midlands. There are certain words where my Northern accent really shows though.

One particular interviewer remarked on it and said that people don't really move to my small town. That they're born into it. He wanted to know what was keeping me here and asked if I had family in the area.

It's come up a couple of times in different interviews and I find it annoying.

'You'll move away when you get the chance, they all do'

'How do we know you won't move back to your hometown?'

...Why would I randomly move back?

'Our last employee did'

Well I'm not them, am I?

I wonder that sometimes. I mean, it wasn't all doom and gloom. I used to love beach holidays as a kid. There were good times as well as bad.

I definitely used to get a lot of those 'Oh, Lost_dragon, she's such an old soul', 'wise beyond her years' or 'a pleasure to have in class' and man was I miserable.

Mature kid. Immature adult.

This is really relatable. I usually feel more like three goblins in a trenchcoat than an adult human. I just want to hide in my lair and not engage with the demands of being an adult human.

Me too.

This resonated with me.

I've never been mature but I don't feel particularly immature either (even though I may come across as such)

Personally I struggle with being civilised but I think I just about pass