The Difference Between Being A Teenager And Being An Adult
Is it easy to be an adult? Being a teenager very is hard, you go through a lot of stress, anxiety, fear, and even depression. Being an adult is easier than being a teenager, you may have a life of your own but even if there are a lot of responsibilities at adulthood, it doesn’t beat how hard being a teenager is. At first it may be hard being an adult, but then you’ll get used to it and it’s almost impossible to get used to your teen life.
Being a teenager is making sure your you complete your homework, do school activities, do sports, do chores, so much to do and that’s why it’s so stressful. In Middle/High School, students would label others jock, nerds, theater boy, etc. It was a very hard move for the groups, and if you were lucky enough you could communicate with multiple groups. However, when it comes to adulthood you have different roles to pick, nobody tells you what you are or what you have to be in life. In middle school and high school, we had to enter the dreaded lunchroom and hope that there would be a place where we could sit and be accepted. As adults, we can arrange who we eat lunch with or even eat alone without feeling like all eyes are upon us. We can retreat to our desks, cars or even our kitchens. We can even skip lunch now if we so desire without anyone knowing.
As teens, most of us were very vulnerable and prone to becoming emotionally upset very quickly. If a friend didn’t include us one day, we might have a major meltdown. As an adult, many of us have become a bit tougher, either through life experience or even by going to therapy. We tend to be more emotionally insulated from the slings and arrows of our peer group and other external sources. This doesn’t mean being an adult is anywhere easy, You are expected to be more mature and you have more responsibilities, You will be shamed for acting like a kid or you would go to prison for having drugs instead of getting a slap on the wrist, like you did as a teenager. You no longer can go to school, which might mean that you become less intelligent and your chances of meeting people and making friends goes way down. You need a job to live, a job gives you money so you can have a home, food, clothes, etc. You have less options for deciding what you want to do with your life. You no longer have anyone giving you advice or telling you what you should do. You have less free time.
Life was never easy, there is no question that it is rough to be a teenager. But that doesn’t mean adulthood is easy, we just have to handle what we have.
