Why Is Growing Up So Hard? Overcoming the Struggle of "Adulting"
I n recent years, millennials have developed a fondness for creating words by abbreviating, lengthening, or otherwise distorting existing words. This legit lingo is on fleek tho, and selfies be like totes adorbz. I mean adulting is cray cray and rents don't get that we're for reelz, but yolo so whatevs. Y eah, it gets weird sometimes, but we still manage to communicate. However, one of these modern words is becoming increasingly popular so I think it deserves special consideration. Here goes! A dulting. That word may sound self-explanatory to some and foreign to others, but it's a very complex phrase to properly define. Adulting is more than simply "being an adult", in fact, there's nothing simple about it! Adulting generally includes a combination of anxiety and a lack of self confidence, both caused by a lack of experience with, or a fear of, "adult" responsibilities. This is the general mood of a vast part of my generation. From cartoons to vi...