When we were kids, we couldn't wait to be adults. Now we are adults, we just want to be kids again! But unfortunately, we cannot literally physically age backwards.
According to a study, participants' well-being rises starting in their early 20s and peaks in their early and mid-30s. The trend then gradually reverses after that. So what is it exactly about adulting that turns people into a caricature of their former selves?
These stories have been submitted anonymously and identities have been changed. Enjoy!
Someone said, "Adulting is like looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane".
"The page of girlhood had been turned, as by an unseen finger, and the page of womanhood was before her with all its charm and mystery, its pain and gladness."
― L.M Montogmery
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