It's time to be an adult 🎒


Yesterday when my mom and I were driving back after a day together with my sister and her husband, we stopped because a mom's friend was at a cafeteria, she asked for my mom and how was she, and then turned back their sight to me and asked how old am I, with doubt I answer 27, and I realized that I am old. She showed surprise and asked again, she thoughted I was younger than I am. 


I told my mom after her friend went out, that I was really ashamed when her friend asked my age, and that made me ask myself about my goals and achievements, and if I was doing something to reach them. And realize that past my twenties my life turns a little predictable and in some way bored.


After I finished my tertiary studies  I didn't know what would be the route that my life would take. My life would be a long and non-sense search for employment, with no more aspirations of that, searching to be rooted in some city but never taking risks and going out of my comfort zone.


Maybe this was my problem, I never took risks, always I was searching for safety and comfort, maybe I left to pass the years, reclined on my sofa or in front of my computer the expecting someone calls me and offer me a job.


Now it's time to assume my life and take risks, and sort of type of problems and opportunities that the life has prepared for me, If I don't assume my role in this life like an adult, never going to be the man who I desire to be.


The next step would be to start a life far from my family and start a new life and put to prove myself in a new city.


~S.

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