Remember back when you were a kid and all you wanted was to grow up? You'd get to stay up as late as you want, eat dessert before dinner, and decide what you're doing on the weekend for yourself. And you were absolutely right, when you grow up you do have the freedom to do all those things. And though we may not have known it, that's all we really wanted. Control and freedom, freedom and control.
Of course, now that we're (presumably) adults it's not anything like we thought. I tend to wish I could go to be earlier, try to avoid eating dessert because it catches up with me to fast, and spend my weekends dealing with laundry and cleaning the house. We do have the freedom, but nobody mentioned all the other shit that comes with growing up.
Lies abound about adulthood.
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