Well, I Guess This is Growing Old.
Forgive me for quoting Sum 41 Blink 182 (Sorry, I tend to mix up bands with names that sound like AIM screennames).
I spent part of today calling shops to get a re-alignment on my car. One of my friends calls problems like these as "grown-up problems." These problems are characterized by typically being simple to solve with a tedious solution. Some examples of this are:
- Doing Laundry.
- Picking up a package from the post office because you have no idea when you'll be at your place to receive it.
- Driving to your own doctor's/optometrist's/dentist's/etc appointments.
- Balancing your own checkbook.
- Booking your own plane tickets.
- Gas. (which is starting to become a hackneyed term.)
- Going to the grocery store.
- Cooking the food you bought at the grocery store.
- Cleaning your house.
"Grown-up problems" really relate to day-to-day tasks young college-students like myself go through. There are way more serious problems that people face every day. But those come after graduation.
I'm slowly starting to become aware to the bubble I'm stuck in. These grown-up problems are pushing in on the bubble. Some of them can be really funny, some very painful, and some still are a very twisted mix of the two.
I feel like an armchair critic. I can be an intellectual and talk about the problems our society has. But pretty soon, I'll need to eat a certain amount of my words, get out the armchair, and step into the hurricane of hypocrisy I so fervently speak out against.
And to quote another pop music figure, I offer the following solution:
Shut up and drive.
I spent part of today calling shops to get a re-alignment on my car. One of my friends calls problems like these as "grown-up problems." These problems are characterized by typically being simple to solve with a tedious solution. Some examples of this are:
- Doing Laundry.
- Picking up a package from the post office because you have no idea when you'll be at your place to receive it.
- Driving to your own doctor's/optometrist's/dentist's/etc appointments.
- Balancing your own checkbook.
- Booking your own plane tickets.
- Gas. (which is starting to become a hackneyed term.)
- Going to the grocery store.
- Cooking the food you bought at the grocery store.
- Cleaning your house.
"Grown-up problems" really relate to day-to-day tasks young college-students like myself go through. There are way more serious problems that people face every day. But those come after graduation.
I'm slowly starting to become aware to the bubble I'm stuck in. These grown-up problems are pushing in on the bubble. Some of them can be really funny, some very painful, and some still are a very twisted mix of the two.
I feel like an armchair critic. I can be an intellectual and talk about the problems our society has. But pretty soon, I'll need to eat a certain amount of my words, get out the armchair, and step into the hurricane of hypocrisy I so fervently speak out against.
And to quote another pop music figure, I offer the following solution:
Shut up and drive.