Adulting

I am adulting today, as the youth of my generation (the 90s-born kids) would say.

As a government employee, we are obliged to fill out a form declaring all our assets and liabilities. This is the famous SALN (Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth) form. The first time I had to fill one out was when I was a student assistant. I was 20 years old and my salary wouldn't be processed if I did not declare my possessions.

I was 20. I didn't own anything. The money I had slips through my hands the moment I receive them. Not knowing what to write down, I bid my last salary goodbye in an effort to escape the responsibility of listing down what I was supposed to already know, which I didn't.

I am now 25, and am considered an adult. Except that I don't want to be. I always try to avoid being one and yet it keeps chasing me.

What is it to be an adult? When do we have to start acting like one? When do we have to be one? Obviously, I do not have the answers because even I am trying to deny the fact that I am (or have to be) one now. Why do previous generations seem not to have an issue with this kind of responsibility ? I can't tell for the other older generations but I am sure though that for mine, we seem to have trouble facing our reality. It seems like we never want to grow up, at least, not now.