Being an adult takes time

Being an adult is hard.
There are moments in our lives when we realize we are not ready to be adults. Like when a car insurance provider gives you a quote for $340 a month or your bank account balance is $3.71 and your gas tank is empty. It is easy to feel alone, left out, and that your life is going nowhere.
Kelly Williams Brown has the advice on being an adult that every college student, graduate and grown adult should read if they are trying to make it on their own.
Brown’s New York Times Bestseller, “Adulting: How to Become A Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, provides 468 pieces of useful advice for young adults who aren’t sure where to start. From being responsible for your own goals and actions, to learning how to properly stock a kitchen and cook something other than ramen, Brown’s book has it all.
“One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper,” Brown said. “Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed.”
Brown addresses many topics that we are afraid to talk about or that we don’t think other people experience.
She uses humor and personal anecdotes to pull in her audience and keep them reading until the very end.
The truth is that we all feel insufficient when it comes to making the right decisions and knowing that we are on the right track in life. Everyone makes bad choices. How we deal with those choices is what really matters. Brown tackles some big issues like money management and how to get and maintain a job. Her tips provide helpful insight into adult life for those twenty-somethings who are afraid of the challenges of adulthood.
“The vast majority of this book is full of practical, interacting-with-the-world sorts of steps—wiping your counters or breaking up with your surly boyfriend or whatever,” Brown said. “Most of being an adult is not up in your head, it’s in your actions.”
College graduation doesn’t always spark the maturity needed for adulthood. Being an adult takes work. It means cleaning your bathroom, throwing dinner parties, and not getting hurt when the world doesn’t care about you. Being an adult means acting like a grown up even when you don’t feel like one.
“The outside world only sees your outermost layer,” Brown said in step No. 87. “Thus, it is easier than it might initially seem to fake it until you make it.”