On being an adult

“I am often mistaken for an adult because of my age.”

This sentence caught my eye today and got me thinking about “adulting” and wondering when “adult” shifted from being a noun to a verb (according to Google the use of “adulting” took off in the late 2000’s).

It also reminded me of how I often don’t feel completely grown up. Which, considering how many decades of living I’ve done, seems a little silly.

But really, it makes me ponder the possibility that this is one of those “eternal now” things; that I’ll never “get there” because I’m always just “me” — at every age, in every moment, always the same inside despite the way the outside changes so dramatically over the years and decades.

Regardless, I definitely have days when I can relate 100% to these hilarious “adulting” memes.