I thought five things would get easier with adulthood and a little wisdom. Spoiler alert: They didn't.
Five Things I Thought Would Get Easier With Age
1. Bedtimes
As children, didn't we think we would be able to go to bed whenever we wanted, and it would be awesome? That's a common trope, right?
Turns out, it doesn't really work that way. Fun fact: Sometimes, you actually want to go to bed and get some sleep, only to wake up at 2:00 in the morning, singing the same song over and over in your head (in my case) or coding some algorithm (in my husband Dan's case, although I couldn't tell you what that means).
2. Being a homeowner
Or as Dan said to me the other day, "I didn't think owning a house would be easy so much as I didn't know everything would wear out every ten years."
And along the same lines . . .
3. Taking care of the lawn and weeding
Contrary to how amazing I look in this picture, I don't mow the lawn very often or, actually, not at all. But I do pull weeds, especially in the summers, and that is a never ending battle. And it takes Dan an entire afternoon to do yard work every week. I thought a neat lawn, complete with pretty trees and shrubs, was just something you manifested.
4. More time to read for pleasure
During my college years, while pouring over textbooks on music theory, orchestration, choral and instrumental methods, and history, I thought I would have more time to read what I wanted when I became a real adult.
That turned out to be false. It just did. It's hard to say what replaced all of those hours I spent at the university library, probably the 400 students who darken my music classroom every week.
5. Not having a period, or at least getting to that point
I thought it would just stop one day. That was stupid.
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