Grown Up?

"Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret"- Liberal Arts

It's the end of an era, like they proverbially say. I mean college is getting over, you are graduating in a month, you have a job in your hand and suddenly everybody expects you to behave a certain way. A certain code of conduct needs to be followed and deferring from it can, to put it subtly, land you in soup. Technically when you entered college you were an adult in the proper legal sense but now that you at the end of it, you are the "adult" version of an "adult. *This should make absolute sense! like duh!!* Your Facebook newsfeed is suddenly a repository of wedding pictures and baby pictures. Your friends and immediate seniors are getting married and having babies and there you are in your superman shorts and 1st semester college tee, a packet of Lay's Magic masala as your saving grace, 3 am in the morning, tired but not sleeping because it ain't worth sleeping until you want to gouge your eyeballs out, searching for the lastest episode of Flash or if Charlie Cox has a girlfriend and intermittently wondering if you will ever "grow up". I mean deep down within you are still that 15 year old, who has no clue exactly what is happening but then you surely want to be Elon Musk's competitor in the space business and have a lunch date with Scarlett Johansson, but you have no idea how. Like a well loved character in a much watched web series asks- how do you ever know when you grow up?? Like how do you know that the things you decide have to be absolute? Suddenly all your decisions are yours and the privilege of the safety net just ceases to exist! Sometimes it appears that all the "adults" in the world aren't adults per se. You never "grow up". You just accumulate experiences and like that code you ran the other day and it showed compilation errors, you start learning newer ways to debug it and run the program better in the near future... Well, all being said and done, I believe it's our time to enter the "real" world! All aboard! And God Speed!!