Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.
You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.