Adulting can be so hard and at times, I wish I could go back to when life was much simpler.
As a kid, my only responsibility was to go to school and to clean my room and a few other chores.
But that’s it, and I had no other care in the world. As an adult, there are so many things that I am responsible for. And some of them I am not even sure why, I certainly did not sign up for many of them. Back when I was a kid, chores included making my bed, doing the dishes, dusting, and sweeping/vacuuming the floor. As an adult, you’re responsible for the upkeep of the entire house. So, on top of all the aforementioned chores, there’s home and car maintenance, landscaping, cooking, laundry, and grocery shopping, just to name a few. And home maintenance is an ongoing chore that must be completed in order to make the home comfortable. For instance, I need to change the air filter in my HVAC unit and clean out the debris from around the condenser. I also need to remember to schedule yearly service with the HVAC technician. At some point, all this maintenance was handed to me when I became an adult. Trust me, this was not my idea and if I didn’t have to worry about my HVAC unit again, I would choose that option. But it comes with being an adult and owning a home, so I guess, I need to accept that HVAC maintenance and other tasks are part of the life of an adult. And we don’t get paid to do any of it. Adulting is hard.