Adulthood is a joke

Don't let anyone fool you. For the vast majority of humanity adulthood is just one uppercut to the balls after the other. The bills are always due. There's never enough money and you have to choose between gas in the car or food in the fridge. And everyone has a fucking opinion.

Including me.

Some people insist you should go straight to college.

Personally I disagree. Take a year or two and figure out who the fuck you are. Work different jobs and get a feel for what you want to do so when you go to school you have a legit idea of what to major it.

On the other side. Prepare to be broke as shit either way. College is expensive. Not going to college is expensive. Eating right and taking good care of your health is expensive. Eating like shit is expensive. Food in general is shit loads of money you flush away every month.

On a food note. Don't go grocery shopping hungry. Unless you wanna come home with 400 dollars in snack food. Buy some easy staples. Hamburger. Chicken breasts. Cereal. Things that are easy to make and that you can play with a bit. Don't be scared of your kitchen. Get in their and cook some shit. Your mom and grandma didn't wake up one day making good ass food. They practiced and learned by trial and error.

Learn to drink coffee at home. Five dollars a day at your favorite coffee stand is madness. (But treat yourself once in a while.)

Go. Through. Your. Fucking. Clothes. Apartments and dorm rooms are small as shit. There are lots of places that will buy your old clothes, or you could be a better person than me and donate them. On that note, find a second hand store that doesn't suck. In the Boise area I recommend Uptown Cheapskate, to both buy and sell clothes.

Buy good shoes. If you abuse your feet with shit shoes your ankles will hurt. If your ankles get bad your knees will hurt. If your knees go bad, your hips and back will hurt. You can royally fuck your entire body by wearing cheap ass shoes to work in. And trust me you can't afford to be in your twenties and broken.

Set up a routine. Get a dry erase calendar. Mark down the days you work and your days off. Set a laundry day. Set a time to do dishes. Set little goals for yourself. It'll keep things cleaner. And you won't end up doing everything on your day off and resenting it.

Breakfast bro. Eat that shit. Your day will go much better if your stomach has more than last night's beer and pizza in it. Granola bars, yogurt, fruit. What ever you want.

Put down that fucking monster and drink water. Hydration is a thing. 20 years old isn't invincible. This is the only body you get and kidney failure is a pain in the ass.

Find a comfort place. Restaurant or diner, coffee shop, whatever. A place to go when everything sucks and get some damn food.

Life isn't a soap opera. You're not gonna make friends right away in a new town or situation. If you're lucky you'll have a few close by. But get out there and learn how to be happy alone. You don't need your friends and family with you all the time to exist. Go to the store alone. Walk around the park by yourself. You have to learn to live with yourself, before any one else wants to.

Adulthood is a shit storm wrapped in cluster fuck. It's hard and wears you down.

But. The feeling of accomplishment of cooking dinner on your own. Of making it through a whole day without someone walking you through it. That's the best. It's when you realize that you can do this damn thing. It's when home isn't your parents house, but your own apartment. That's when you know you're making it.

Drink some coffee, put on some classic rock and ass kicking boots, and make adulthood your bitch.

(Also make room in your budget for internet. You'll regret it if you don't.)