Sometimes...

Mine was when my later-to-be mother in-law was having a tirade in my then rented apartment and I clearly remember my fathers voice say in the back of my head...? When you pay the mortgage you make the rules. Until then, I do? and it hit me. Wait, I am paying the rent. So.... that means I don? have to listen to this crap. I was a bouncer at local concerts. So I very professionally picked this screaming PITA up and nicely put her on the front stoop. She kept going, so I then informed her if she did not leave, I was going to call the cops. She left, never forgave me for that moment but.... it was worth it. I was an adult with all the power and repercussions that means. Still living with it to this day.

I hope you jumped on the bed and ate ice cream for dinner after that.

Another thing that flips the switch for me is when you're in a corporate environment and people get excited about Jeans Day or holidays when people usually party and get drunk. I can wear jeans or get drunk when ever I want, I just have to deal with whatever consequences.

I'm not sure any of the moments that one would think of as being "adult" really hit me that way. I was sent off at 14 for four years of boarding school in a foreign country and all of the events after that just happened whether I thought those were adult moments or not - getting married, buying a house, burying a parent, estate planning, etc.

One thing I did find poignant was the switch from when I was generally socializing with people older than I was (into my late 30's) and I was at the younger end of the group, to suddenly being the older person in the group, that really rearranges perspective. Telling my wife that as much as we may consider ourselves able to socialize with people who are 35, they have no interest in hanging around with people the age of their parents. Realizing in a youth-obsessed culture that I have more road behind me than in front of me is an interesting thought at times.

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Originally Posted by hatidua

.... Telling my wife that as much as we may consider ourselves able to socialize with people who are 35, they have no interest in hanging around with people the age of their parents. Realizing in a youth-obsessed culture that I have more road behind me than in front of me is an interesting thought at times.

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This.

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Originally Posted by hatidua

Telling my wife that as much as we may consider ourselves able to socialize with people who are 35, they have no interest in hanging around with people the age of their parents.

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The irony is I'm almost 35, yet regularly do trivia with my boss and his friend, both of whom are old enough to be my parents :P

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