Iβve heard people say you donβt feel like a grownup until you have kids, but I donβt think that was true for me.
Donβt get me wrong. Having kids changed me in a lot of ways, the most significan't being how much better I understand my own parents. But there have still been moments in the last decade where Iβve felt like a kid just pretending to be an adult.
Iβd get invited to someoneβs house and my first thought upon entering would be βThis is a real grownupβs house.β Maybe everyone feels that way, I donβt know.
But that all changed when I heard the Katy Perry song This is How We Do for the first time. Now I love me some Katy Perry (Roar is one of my top 10 songs of all time). And some Ke$ha. And Taylor Swift and Pink and Avril Lavigne and all the rest of it. I have the Pop music tastes of a 13 year old.
So thereβs a line in the middle of This is How We Do that goes
Yo, shout out to all you kids, buying bottle service, with your rent money! Respect
And all I could think was βJesus, how irresponsible can you be. If you canβt afford to go out and pay rent, pay your fucking rent.β
Followed closely by the thought, βShit, I think Iβm a grownup now.β