salty-inc:

salty-inc:

There should be more “coming of age” movies set not in teenage years

coming of age stories that feature characters who are primarily 15-19 really fucked with my perception of adulthood and growing up. Yea there’s a lot of stuff that happens in that phase of your life that shape you as a person but rarely does an event change you to the point where you come out of it all Mature and Grown Up. Feeling like I need to be ready to face the world by the time I’m 20 has given me too much anxiety than it’s worth.

When I ask older people when they finally felt like a “real adult” the answer has constantly been when they were 26-30. Their personal “coming of age” story happens about a decade after they do on the movies.

You don’t need feel Grown Up right away. Enjoy the bubbling uncertainty of your 20s