Adulting as a Verb
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- Misconceptions or Realities?
- Is "adulting" just putting myself closer to the grave, one strategic step at a time?
- The teen mom/ the single mom
- Failure is a Part of Life
- The traveling/ adventuring one
- Life is not easy, but being able to roll with the punches can help reduce the stress of being over-conscious of pit falls. This is why I am glad to have 5 different "case studies" to observe in my formulation of my "life experiment."
- The emotionally distant and impulsive one
- The one that uses relationships to others as a metric of self worth
- Failures:IllnessReworks and Second ChancesChaosEmotional dependence
- My Failures and Successes
- Successes:JobDriver's LicenseCollegeOwn spaceCompartmentalization
- "Adulting" is a daunting task, and it is one which is considered a right of passage. For my 18th birthday, my parents got me a book on the subject, and I have not opened it once. But, why? Well, opening that book almost seems to mean committing towards progressing on my way to being a full-fledged adult, and that means looking forward to what lays ahead with deadlines, tests, interviews, etc. Each moment brings me one step closer to the grave and one step further from the safe harbor of childhood innocence.
- Adult as a Verb
- Maybe I'm not as "fine" as I thought.
- As Elizabeth Bishop illustrates in her poem "One Art," the road of life is one which gets worn down over time with potholes, cracks, rough patches, and detours breaking apart a monotonously smooth ride from birth to death. These imperfections and obstacles are not provided on a map, but we interact with them regularly. Every road has its faults. I learned this through my observations of my sisters and parents. They provided opportunities for observational study that would inevitably allow me to view and test a wide range of responses to failure.
- Hansen
- The immigrant in search of the American Dream
- This Semester:17 credit hours13 hrs/wk working2-4 hrs/wk extracurriculars2 hrs/wk volunteering
- In my life, failure was not just felt vicariously. I have had many of my own shortcomings which have come to form a sort of "adulting" conscience or compass. I often have trouble with deadlines, using chaotic energy to try to pull myself out of stressful situations. Trying to "adult" almost feels like hopping up on an operating table for others to see how each part of you comes to work towards the collective whole. The only way I was able to remain sane was to put self-care in the form of sleep and indulgence as rewards rather than guarantees, promising myself food or a nap if I can just make it one more step.
- Workism
- FOR ME:
- Classical Studies (Classical Civilization)
- FOR ME TO GIVE BACK TO SOCIETY:
- Pre-medical Microbiology and Cell Science
- When examining how to effectively adult, Allen's model of mastering workflow seems like a reasonable ideal. However, it is hard to engage in the tasks at hand when workloads become raging fires consuming all your time and making it feel like it is hard to just take a breath. You can organize your life, but when there is so much to do things become overwhelming quickly, prompting disengagement as an attempt to try to get everything done in a short amount of time seems futile.
- This raging inferno is best explained in Hansen's spread-too-thin trap. I have fallen victim to this trap many times, including this semester. In an attempt to get as much done as possible and progress towards that "adulthood" deadline, I have taken on more than I can. I often find myself scattering my attention so widely that certain assignments and responsibilities are not allotted the proper amount to guarantee good quality submissions. My error here is that I fail to realize time and time again that my attention and energy are finite.
- My parents see my busy schedule as a marker of success, but I do not feel successful. My parents, an immigrant and a teenage mother, worked just as I did when they were younger because they had to. They found purpose in their work, and this "workism," as Thompson puts it, has been passed on to me. I am currently trying to resist the pull of humanity's false nature by slowing down and trying to find a customized degree path which blends my career and individual interests. My parents had to fight for status and funds to survive. I do not. For me, work does not have to be about surviving; it does not need to be my purpose. Instead, it should be about buying free time.
- Life should not be one-sided, so I have made my individual interests a major part of my life by incorporating it into my class schedule and lessening the amount of time committed to school from 18 to 17 to hopefully 15 credit hours. This way I can "obsess" more over my work, focusing on small details and better performances. I often overload my schedule to try to accomplish my goals faster. However, life is a marathon not a sprint. Adding on is not the answer; rather taking weights off will help in getting to the finish line faster. If I continue to add on and on I am bound to collapse.
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