14 Harsh & Heartbreaking Truths About Adulthood When we were little kids, we always thought adulthood was the answer to everything – that it's going to be the greatest time of our lives. The time we'll finally live the life we've always wanted for ourselves. The time we'll finally fulfill all those dreams written at every corner of our delicate little hearts. The time we'll conquer every possible challenges and will succeed. The time we'll go out there and tell ourselves 'This is it! Glorious days are coming'. You believe this with all your heart, mind and spirit. You have been nothing but prepared for this, for the real life, for the real world. Everyone around you tells you the same thing over and over, that you are BOUND to live an extraordinary life. To do the …show more content…
You might never land your dream job. They tell you nothing is impossible, that no matter how much and whatever it takes you'll get there, you'll land your dream job. But sometimes, that is not and will never be the case. Sometimes your dream job isn't really for you. Not because you lack in trying but because you aren't really for that particular job. Maybe you're meant for something else, something different. And sometimes different is better than what you have in mind. 8. Your life might never be what you've always imagined for yourself. Considering the real world and the real situation you're in, you might not live the life you've always wanted. After all, you may not be that rich successful CEO, you may not marry a handsome, French guy, you may not be a big deal after all – all of which are okay. The world will not condemn you. 9. Those you thought wouldn't succeed are actually wayyyyyyy ahead of you. And you're wayyyyyy behind them. That's life. You can't really judge a book by its cover which also applies to you, you can't judge your success yet. Your life can actually turn around in the coming years. 10. You wake up one day realizing you're surrounded with a whole new group of
So why isn’t everyone successful? Some believe that success is only a matter of will and only a person can decide if they want to become successful or not. This is not true; a person’s background ultimately
No matter how ordinary a human being could be, no one has lived their entire life in someone’s shoe. Everyone stumbles upon different decisions in life, causing different but unique life experiences. However, one’s life can only be changed with one’s decision. Life is about making decisions, whether it’s right or wrong, it all comes from the decision maker.
Not everyone can be successful. Some people were put on this Earth to achieve, while others were born into a cursed life. It’s nothing personal, it’s just fate. Many will argue that success can be achieved with enough hard work and determination. It is commonly believed that anyone can aspire to be anything if they want.
Everybody has to face the bumps of growing up. As we grow up, we find meaning in things that we never noticed before. Through the worst days and the best days, everybody develops by reaching a better understanding and continuing on. The transition from the innocent childhood to a mature adulthood is a slow process that a person takes one step at a time.
We all face the different characters of our self in one point in our lives. The decision is for you to choose whether you want to be a person who remains the same or a new changed person who wants to leave an impact on the people in your life. Human nature is a life filled with jealousy, selfishness, peer pressure ,etc… but it is the decision of the individual to change your destiny. Not just yours but many others because your testimony can impact others to change and be a better person who motivates, builds people’s character, and strengthens relationships among all people. The more the renewal of many people’s lives changing the more positivity we will see in
There are multiple stages of grief and healing. The stages have no order, so one person may not be at the same stage as another when dealing with the same situation. The same thing applies to the stages of healing. In the novel “Ordinary People” by Judith Guest, the Jarrett family, Conrad, Calvin, and Beth are all in different stages of grief due to the loss of Buck and other reasons varying from character to character. The two main characters Conrad and Calvin move from stages of grief to stages of healing by recognizing why their grieving.
eading this novel, Justin A. Reynolds is portraying the idea that we only have so much time and you have to use it wisely. There never seems to be enough time to accomplish the things we want to, or change the things we want to. In the book, “Opposite of Always”, there are plenty of themes to pick up on such as: forgiveness, protection, thinking you’re too late, and making mistakes. One theme I largely picked up on was coming of age. Growing up, we make lots of mistakes, and the transformation from teen to adult comes with loss.
Tenacious people do not rely on luck, fate or destiny for success, they just keep working. For thousands who give up, there is always someone like Benjamin Franklin saying, " I start off where the last man left off." Robert Strauss stated 'Success is like wrestling a gorilla, you don 't quit when you 're tired, you win when the gorilla becomes tired." If you want to succeed, push beyond what you think you can do and discover your
Through life, everyone even animals go through the evolution and growing up process. From infant all the way to the walk of a cane, aging is a process in our lives that everyone dreads going through. We all have to learn how to grow up and take on responsibilities that we as adults will face later on in our lives. “What Is It about 20-Somethings” by Robin Henig gives insight into the life of young adulthood and the phenomenon of adults being “stuck”. Whether people like it or not, you’re going to have to grow up and start your own life.
Little kids dream of being just like their parents, playing house, and growing old with the person they love, but too soon the dreams of little kids die as they realize that the adult world is not just the love stories, the one parents tell kids, the ones about how they met and fell in love. The adult world coomes with things that daydreams never include. Responsibilities, work, worries, pressure, lies, isolation, manipulation, limitations, rules, competition, bosses, taxes, politics. Everything is getting worse and never
The way I am looking at it right now, I feel like I don’t have the potential to get my dream job but instead I might have drive this cab
Even people tried to touch their dreams and got through quite a lot problem in the process of effort, most of them will still get failures and fall down from the sky to the ground. However, it is important to hold fast to dreams and get experience from the process of chasing dreams. “Hold fast to dreams,for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.(Hughes, 8).” This piece of text shows us without chasing dreams, life will lose vitality and become colorless. Also, people will always feel regret if they have never try.
The Art of Letting Go Have you ever tried of loving someone so much but chose to let that person go? I think that’s the perfect question for me to say “Absolutely yes!” I used to love someone so much that is long distance to me and to the extent that he means the world to me. Exaggerated, right?
Life for me growing up was super difficult. A lot of my childhood was pure traumatic. Also, it was a struggle for me and my family, money wise and food wise. Also, our house was very small. We even lost our father and I also became a teen mom.
Broken heart hurts your feeling. Nobody associates broken heart with happiness. Likewise, I felt terribly sad when I had my heart broken. I remember it felt so disastrous for me that I almost couldn 't do anything for one month. However, as time passed by, I began to think about what lesson I could learn from it.