Few days back, I was watching a Mini TV Series on TVF named “Adulting” starring Aisha Ahmed as Nikhat Rizvi and Yashaswini Dayama as Ray Madhav. It’s a series about adulting life what happens to millennials when they experience adulting. I loved the series and got an idea that why not to write a blog on something that is relatable to half of the population of the world. I hope I will do justice to the blog and share as much as I can tell about Adulting life and experiences.
Away from home: The first stage of adulting life deals with living away from parents and moving to a new city. Living with flatmates or roommates, paying rent, buying groceries, washing clothes and utensils, cleaning the house, and much more. Sometimes, we have to be frugal to buy some stuff we wanted. We have to maintain a monthly budget to buy items for our house. We knowingly or unknowingly stop sharing much from parents. Parents and child got different perspectives on the same topic due to their own lifestyle. Mostly we don’t have that person to talk about how we feel, who can listen us whatever we want to share without passing any judgments. Strangely, we lose connection with studies because of the job routine, if we want to pursue something in future. Its all new and fascinating but sometimes mundane and frustrating.
Job fever: In Adulting life, Millennial’s wants to be independent and face job issues in their career. But constantly we face ups and downs in their job. Sometimes, situations like not getting the dream project, not getting the right job opportunity , monotonous work life, new project anxiety, seeking validation for our work, thoughts of losing any job opportunity. Everyday there is competition in office or sometimes we get jealous from other colleagues. Bizarre situations like getting job opportunity abroad to leave everything behind and starting a new life again. At that point, we will be in a dilemma with millions of questions that what we want and what we don’t want in life.
Having Blast: When it’s a new city, we like to explore everything that fascinates us like partying, travelling, smoking, drinking, drugs, weeds, social media validation, trips for a break from life. We get so used to such things that we start forgetting our best memories of childhood and get attracted by the glitters of the city.
Relationships: The major fever of millennials to have a girlfriend or boyfriend. We wanted to be with someone that makes us feel special, gives us attention, care and love us, listen and understand us, spend time with us. Some people also experiences casual dating and hook-ups. Sometimes people get emotionally connected. Sometimes long-distance relationships and eventually breakups. We are the generation who wants instant gratification. We have the least patience and attention span.
Flatmates become family: Slowly flatmates or roommates become family. We start celebrating their birthdays, special days, sharing stuff, spending time with them. Altogether it’s like a journey. Sometimes friendship taken for granted and later on we realize the value of that time and experience. Sometimes, we get into fights and laugh later on. We start getting used to such lifestyle. Adulting life is basically between 18-25 years in which we experience a lot with situations and people and that will make us a different person in many ways.
That’s all for this blog. I hope you all can resonates with all the above points. If you want to share any other things you faced as an adulting experience, so I would love to read them. Please share them in the comments. I will be back with the Year End blog of 2022 soon.
Below is the author’s blog link named Mark Manson who wrote the book “The Subtle Art of not giving a F***”
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