RESPONSIBILITIES...Take It Away, Please!

If I was told that growing up and turning to a full pledged adult would be so darn hard, I would've settled for being a kid forever!

Sure adults (from when I was growing up) made it look like life was so simple; anybody would be glad to be considered "of legal age" to do whatever they want, go wherever they want, be with whomever they want to be with. Life looked like one helluva big non-stop party that just goes on and on until someone says stops.

When I was in high school and landed a part-time job at a fast-food restaurant when I was in Grade 11, I didn't think that having a job and getting paid bi-weekly would one day be a crucial part of my life. Soon after I graduated from college and still have a job, life began to take a turn for something I wasn't quite expecting.

Six months down the road after I graduated my monthly student loan payment came and was automatically deducted off my bank account. Then I had to pay for my monthly car insurance (at the time the car I was driving was given to me by my parents so all I had to worry about was the monthly insurance). Then to go with the flow of trends I got myself my very own cell phone. I thought I was cool and hip and happenin', then the monthly bill came and I had to make sure my pay check every two weeks would be enough to cover my cell phone bills, monthly car insurance, monthly student loan payment, and I told my parents I'd be paying for a couple of house bills as part of my payment for staying at home still.

One thing after another kept on adding up until...I felt so damn suffocated and I maxed out my VISA card!!!! It was crazy! I was hating life. I was wishing I never grew up and suffer through this hell that was part of becoming an adult.

Now, a few years later, I finally managed to get out of that slump. I'm not saying I am completely free off my responsibilities as an adult, but I am getting by way better now than I did before. Of course I have to thank my current job for that as well as the help and support of my parents who was only ever after my well-being...

But if I get to be asked if I want more responsibilities, I'd say take 'em away for now. I don't want anymore to make me pull my hairs out!!!