I am 46.
That is closer to 50 than 40.
(And yes, you probably worked that out yourself, but I’m still coming to terms with it.)
By now I should probably have worked out this Adulting gig.
I’ve been doing it for a long, long long time.
But there are still things I haven’t figured out, despite my advanced age: things I should have sorted by 40, but haven’t.
1.I am still searching for the ideal hair and skin care products. I have not yet accepted the reality that it’s not the products that are imperfect, it is my hair and skin.
2.I still let paperwork pile up in huge mounds around my house. I have tried 758,000 filing systems over the past three decades, and not one of them has eliminated the mounds.
3.I still sometimes eat my feelings.
4.I am still a sucker for clothing bargains and am forever purchasing non-returnable items on sale that I hate the minute I bring them home.
5.I am still incredibly trusting, and get fooled by liars time and time again.
6.I still bite my nails. Even my acrylic nails.
7.I still run out of bread and milk all the time.
8.I still confuse sex with love.
9.I still don’t have a formal exercise regime. Or even a casual exercise regime.
10.I still lose my temper with the kids and regret it afterwards.
11.I still don’t know the capital cities of many countries in the world, despite really, truly trying to memorise them.
12.I still don’t have a signature dish. I don’t even have a signature drink.
13.I still fret if I don’t get enough sleep.
14.I still assume people are dead or angry with me if they don’t text me back straight away.
15.I still need therapy.
What about you?
This story was originally published on Life and Other Crises
