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Adulthood

I hate the idea of adulthood that convince people it comes with age To the wisdom you show is often to be mistaken To be replaced with, 'you are still small and not big enough to make it. The idea of adulthood is suffocating When you aren't fully able to decipher what's being like an adult really  When everything around seems going like just the day before you turned 20
By Susmita Aryal

I hate the idea of adulthood that


convince people it comes with age


To the wisdom you show is often to be mistaken


To be replaced with, 'you are still small and not big enough to make it.


The idea of adulthood is suffocating


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When you aren't fully able to decipher what's being like an adult really 


When everything around seems going like just the day before you turned 20


When even asking for money from your parents became a second thought 


When you had a big circle of friends and now you just have a single contact in the call history


And the dinner table, the long conversations on petty issues were entertaining now became an idea of rivalry


Today, adulthood is suppressing 


And you crave for that one connection 


You want to be around 


You want to be heard 


You want to be seen


You want to be missed


Not for its sake, but for the heart 


who grew up but still has a child's heart is


waiting to be right here. 

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