Feeling Adult-ish

There is something about ordering delivery for Chinese food that makes you feel like a adult with a studio apartment in New York. There is also another whole feeling of being an adult as you sit in a dark apartment, lit with candles, the light of your TV, and laptop screen while you write a blog post about being an adult a month after your 20th birthday. 

Then you realize that you are happy where you are, sitting in your living room eating chinese food, with a face mask from lush on, and waiting for the candle-lit bath you might have in an hour or two. While you're writing a post for your blog, and catching up on your favorite youtubers, thinking about the next chapter in the book you are halfway through. 

When you think about one of your best friends from high school coming home in 2 days after being gone for a year and a half, and you realize you have almost been graduated for 2 years, and you're making your way through college having experiences that you didn't even know were real while you were working for that diploma. That's when you realize that time really does move fast, just like all the adults in your life told you. 

And when you write this blog post about being an adult, living on your own, working your way through college, and figuring out how to avoid the winter that is bound to happen, that's when you realize that you are an adult. And you will get excited about interesting things. 

Then you write a list of all the things that you get as an adult, warning those who aren't adults yet. 

• You will get excited about a shelf that you put in your shower, moving the clutter from the edges of the tub. 
• You're going to get excited about a well planned out meal, not one made from pre-made frozen food. 
• There is something exhilarating about entering a clean apartment that you slaved over the day before. 
• When you have freshly cleaned sheets, that is one of the best feelings ever. 
• Cleaning out a drawer that somehow became a junk drawer is fun, its actually FUN.
• When you walk on newly vacuumed carpet, your feet are walking on clouds. 
• Staying in bed rather than cleaning your dishes makes you feel guilty. 
• Clean clothes are a god-sent. 

I know it's a short and boring one, but I am trying to write more often. There will be more interesting posts to come, promise. 

xx Mishea