ADULT LIFE: What it means to be an adult.

I think I’ve entered adulthood.

This post is somewhat a follow up on my previous post called “Prepare yourself for the worst!” In this post I explained how you need to prepare for any possible negative situation that you might come across.

And today, after cleaning my room, rearranging my closet, cleaning the kitchen, vacuuming here, vacuuming there, cleaning the mirror etc… I prepared myself for any future bad situation. — And you know what I did?

I had this moment when you can see yourself from outside of your own body. I know that sounds weird but basically I was “outside” of my own body and I looked at myself acting like a very responsible and respectable adult. And what I saw myself do was something worth giving myself a highfive. What I did was to make a copy of all the important documents that I possess, which I saved on my USB card and which I plan to make a copy of on google drive. I already had some documents saved, like my ID, passport and other REALLY important documents. But today I took it on a whole other level and made a copy of other documents that you wouldn’t think about making a copy of. Maybe if I want to move to a new place/country permanently I would need them. I don’t know.

Also, I just thought about this right now as I’m typing, but what if there’s a fire and all my documents burn into flames?! This is one of my biggest fear actually. I’ve already seen the house of my neighbors in Madagascar catch on fire. The fire could’ve spread to our house and it could’ve burned down the whole neighborhood. And I remember, at that time I was probably 15 years old and therefore it wasn’t really my responsability to think about the important documents. So, what I did was that I took my laptop and ran out. Which is understandable for a 15 years old. It contained all my pictures/memories and those are precious. At any age.

But now if I think about it, although I would love to save everything in my apartment, the first thing and the most important one that you need to save as an adult is your documents. Just thinking about losing those gives me chills. Just thinking about the whole process to have all of them remade. That sounds painful and terrifying.

Anyway, now that I have a copy of them at least I’m somewhat at ease. And if a fire ever happens (which I hope won’t happen, ever!) maybe that day I can save other important things like my pictures. Some clothes, maybe? I don’t know. But at least I’ll be prepared and I’ll be able to grab something else than just pieces of paper.

So there you go, I think that being an adult means to look ahead of you. Plan ahead and look for the many different ways that a situation can go wrong and prepare for that. You cannot prepare for everything but you still can be somewhat be ready. I think that this also applies for parenthood. I’m not a parent but I think that every parent will agree that you have to be ready for any possible events that can happen to, not only you, but to your whole entire family.

And that my friends, is when you know that you’ve entered adulthood and parenthood: when you prepare for the worst. When you can think ahead and try to prepare yourself for any bad event. When you don’t just see the positive but you also try to see the negative and prepare yourself for that to happen too.

It’s nice to be a kid, you don’t have to worry about a thing. You’re just happy. You just want to be happy and that’s it. I try to keep that “kid part” of me that’s why I’m such a big kid at heart but you also have to know when and how to be an adult. And not just see the happy and positive side of life but also see the sad and negative side too. It’s depressing but we have to think about that side too. It’s for our own good.