Using the term Adulting, is a way of compartmentalizing what you HAVE to do, and what you truly WANT to do. Without that compartmentalization, do you really know your own passions well enough to spot them when opportunity arises?
Like, what do you do because it's good for you or puts food on the table, and what do you do because your Soul YEARNS for it?
And how would you know the difference if you don't have a word for it?
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@Heucuva8
We already do.
We had it before people turned the noun "adult" into a verb!
The word is: Responsibilites.
I hear you, but that's an even worse word.
"Beholdens" because you're beholden to someone else for them?
English sucks.
@Heucuva8
In the end, adulting is just shorthand for "being an adult" or "growing up" I suppose.
It just sounds wrong in my head when mature people use it. It sounds like something an 18 year old would say after a bad day at their first job!
The meme:
"I don't want to adult today, I just want to cat." could just as easily be written "I don't want to be an adult today, I just want to be a cat."
It mightn't be as funny, but it would certainly be more correct! π€£
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