First off! Merry Christmas to you! It’s a season of love, a time to give and receive love and also spending time with your loved ones. My daily routine these past days has been cook, eat and sleep. Gosh! I love Christmas.
Come to think of it, this adulthood is not easy o.
While growing up, I used to look up to the grownups, especially the ladies. When I was younger, I’d fantasize about the things I’d do, how fashionable I’d be, the kind of food I’d eat when I become a grownup.

Now ehn, you’re responsible for yourself, you have to pay your bills yourself. When I was in my final year in Uni, my dad used to tell me that I would soon understand and truly I didn’t even understand what he meant until during my service year, I stopped receiving money from home and tried to survive on the meager 19,800 naira monthly allowance. I’m so glad I had some skills that fetched me extra money to keep me going. I called my dad one day and told him “Now, I understand’, he burst out into laughter.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.-Leo Rosten

Apart from the responsibilities that comes with being an adult. You’re also expected to behave like you’re matured. I mean, the playful and sometimes shy person is supposed to be an all knowing adult, choi! I imagine people that I’ve known while growing who are selfish, childish and just annoying, all now adults and they haven’t changed! Walking down the street, seeing plastic containers and I feel like kicking it, I almost do and then I ask myself, “do adults do this?” Another time, I was walking across the road and I just felt the urge to run, I actually did but while doing so the thought crossed my mind, “should I be doing that as an adult?”

Now, I am the one younger ones are looking up to. One of my cousins told me today that she and her sister would like to be like me and my younger sister. Then it dawned on me that even as adults we’re still the same us. You’re still the same you, the few things that have changed are probably age, experience, body weight and height.

For me and a whole lot of other people, this phase is a bit scary. A lady who is about my age asked me if I was a last born and I surprised her when I told her I was the first child and I had three younger siblings. Many people see adulthood as a time to be serious and act all matured, yeah, true. But what happens if even as an adult you want to act goofy sometimes and people look at you and judge. Here’s what you do, you stop looking at them and still act goofy! Hehehehe.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What’s excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly –Hank Green

Adulthood is a very long phase, it’s actually like the longest phase in your life. So, take things easy. It’s allowed to act goofy sometimes, especially in this festive season. Just do you!