From approximately age 17 until now, I've been sort of learning how to be an adult.
It started at 17 for me because I finished school and I started working.
I was in the real world and I had real responsibilities.
And it's been an incredible experience.
Like, I've loved the transition from childhood to adulthood.
It's been one of the most challenging phases of my life thus far.
But also, one of the most rewarding because being a child, being immature is really exhausting.
Like not having social skills, not having emotional intelligence, not knowing how to handle things,
like not having an archive of information in your brain is really exhausting.
There's so much peace that comes with growing up and gaining wisdom.
It's so wonderful.
And it is painful at times.
There are definitely growing pains,
but I'm at the point now at age 24 where I think the worst of it is over and my brain is developed enough now where it's like,
all right, I still have a lot to learn,
but I have enough figured out that I'm now able to sort of bask in the fruits of...
my maturity, I guess.
But I will say there have been some interesting challenges on this journey from childhood to adulthood.
And one of the most confusing has been making friends as an adult,
because it's very different than making friends as a child.