Fear Of The Known

in #hive-1768747 months ago

The first time I came face to face with adulthood, I had the shock of my life. It was like being in a boxing ring with an opponent who was definitely going to kill me and having the world as my audience. In that audience were my friends, family and loved ones who could easily jump into the ring to rescue me yet, they only stood outside and cheered me on when I had no boxing experience and no clue what I was even doing in the ring.

Anytime I ask people to guess my age they would start from 17. They never cross 21 which always makes me happy because deep down I really never want to have any business with growing especially physically. In terms of age, I’ve been an adult for some years but mentally my adulthood only started last year. I was doing service at that time. There was this particular day in the office that I had to work with someone on a project. A day to submission, he messed the project up. He consulted me and of course I got angry first and said my mind to him.

I knew it was going to get him hurt but I still did it because at that point that was what I wanted. There!That’s what’s hard for me about being an adult.
Sometimes, you truly know that this particular thing is so wrong and has consequences but you still go ahead to do it. You could write a whole essay to justify yourself but the main issue is your actions brought forth consequences and you would need to take responsibility.

It was when we were children that we would push our friends not really knowing they would get hurt and then our parents would have to tell us “Abena say you’re sorry”.
It’s different now, this time I have the chance to think about my actions before acting because I know the consequences. I’m no more a child so nobody would say “oh she’s just a child so leave her, Oh she’s last born so allow her”. Nobody would say she didn’t know and that’s why she did that.

Life was so simple when I was a kid because I didn’t know anything. Now that I’m an adult it scares me to know things. Sometimes I really wish I didn’t know things because with knowledge comes many responsibilities but it’s unfortunate that knowing things is actually part of adulthood. The more you know, the more responsible you have to be and it gets really exhausting sometimes. That’s why sometimes people know the consequences of things yet they just brush it off with the saying “y3 b3 wu ntsi y3nnda? (should we be afraid to sleep because of death)”,because they are really tired.

It gets hard being an adult because I’ve lived all my life as a last born and suddenly some stranger called adulthood starts giving me responsibilities I didn’t ask for, can you even imagine?

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Sometimes I wish I was still a kid 😭

Yeah me too

Being an adult is very hard, based on decision making and stuffs NGL.
And yeah you look 16😂

I know I look 16 and I love it

You can’t enter the club without birth certificate 😂💔

Who said I want to enter club?🤣

Me!!!

All I have to say is that the day I was able to conquer the fear of the unknown was my greatest testimony in life

My dear....
Adulthood hard, no be lie.
I never even enter adulthood stage poo but I d feel am already...
I'm scared already

You’ll get through

At each stage of our lives, we have to take responsibility for our actions. A man who doesn’t take responsibility for his or her actions is doomed.

Very much doomed

I feel you in this write up when you said you where like a person in a boxing ring without any experience and the audience are your friends and family who were watching.

I love this description unknowing to me i provided a solution to something like this in my write up on adulthood. This was a exciting to read. The more we grow the more we learn and take responsibility for our actions

Yeah you are righ

Normals. I’m fash, I have to be right 😁😁😁

Immediately I saw the title of your post, I was shocked and that was what dragged to click on the post and get a read about what you wrote because this same title came into my mind while thinking about what to write last week Saturday but I wasn't feeling too good, I ended up not thinking too deep about what to write with the title.

I wish I had not wished to be an adult or imagine what it feels like to be an adult because I want to go back to being a child. It is not easy being an adult

It’s really not an easy task

You are so funny.
Adult hood na Scam 😂
It's funny but true, sometimes, I feel like being a child.

We all do

As an adult who has taken up more life responsibilities than my age, I have hang booth on that thing you people call life hustle. It's the baby girl life for me now, relax and be taken care of.... From my mouth to God's ears 🌚

Amen

Thank you 🙏🏾

You’re welcome ma’am