8 Actions That Prove, Even in Your 20s, You’re Still A Kid At Heart

In life, especially when we are younger, we are told to act our age. We are expected to grow up and live this life that leaves our childhood behind. We are adults now, and we won’t act like children we were once were. Well, maybe not so much.

As we grow, yes, we sometimes actually do have to grow up mentally. But that does not mean that we will forget our childish ways and become an adult almost instantly. That’s not how it works. The remains of your childhood still exist and you can really see them in your 20’s. So this is a list I have made to prove that, yes, you may have to grow up, the the core of your childhood never truly leaves.

1)      You will still be afraid if you lose your parent at the grocery store.

Yes. Sometimes you go to the grocery store with your parents, even when you’re in college, or just visiting home. You walk in there thinking, “Yea, now I can get those overpriced cookies”, so you tell your parental that you are going to get said cookies. You are gone LITERALLY four seconds, and somehow your mother/father/guardian/whoever pulls the best magic act in the world and they are gone. Suddenly you begin to feel that fear that you felt when you were little. Will I find her/him? What if I don’t? WHERE IS MOM!?!?! (By the way, at this point you completely forget that you are most likely holding a phone in your hand). You walk up and back looking down the aisle as your breathing gets heavier and you think of back up options. AND THERE THEY ARE! Finally a sense of relief and calmness. And you never wanted to be separated again. *

*Warning: This will happening about 3-4 times per trip. If faint of heart, attach yourself to a leash.

2) Watch Spongebob

Look if you don’t watch Spongebob in your twenties, there is honestly something wrong. It is a show that is like fine wine. It only gets better with age. You watched it when you were little and you laughed at the things like when someone gets hit with a car or bat or something. And then you went through your angsty teenage stage where you went “Oh I don’t like Spongebob. I’m an adult.” Then BOOM College/whatever you do after high-school hits and all you want to do it be a kid again. So, back comes Spongebob. This is where you realize the greatness of this show. Not only does it have jokes and humor for children, but there are subtle messages in there meant for adults. Example: Spongebob says “Patrick, your genius is showing.” Patrick covers his pants and goes “Where!” Come on now people. That may have gone over your tiny innocent child mind, but your mind is now tainted, so you will love this!

3)      Fear the dark/Spooky noises

Chances are in your twenties, you will now be living either by yourself or with some roommates. If you’re not, then hey no judge! But this may also apply to you. So you’re an adult and you think you can handle anything. You took on the day, you survived, hell you even got a few meals in. Nothing can stop you! You’re invincible! So you tuck yourself into your little bed and close your eyes because you deserve a good night’s sleep. Just as you’re close to falling asleep, you hear this strange noise. It sounds like someone is coming up the stairs, so you let it go. But then your evil brain reminds you, all your roommates are asleep. You’re heart stops, WHO THE HELL IS IN MY HOUSE? And let’s be honest, after ruling out robbers and a crazy drunk person, you resort right back to your childhood nightmares. The boogie man has come to finally finish me off. I knew that ghost was following me. So on and so forth. So what do you do? Hide under your blanket, because universal rule: monsters cannot touch you if you are under your blanket.

4)      You don’t have a filter.

This is a little different when you are older, but the concept is still there. Trust me, I have substituted for many kindergarten classrooms, and those little kids will say whatever they think is 100% true. If they don’t like your hair they will say, “Why is your hair funny?” or “I don’t like your boots.” They don’t understand that sometimes they need to filter what they say and be careful. Well believe it or not, we as twenty year old’s do this as well. No we don’t! You’re saying to yourself. You are wrong. Ever been drunk? Honey, you are back to your six year old self. If you love that girl’s dress over there, well damn it she deserves to know. And Becky wore those ugly purple shoes? Welp, someone is going to hear about it. But what about people who don’t drink. When you get overtired, basically you’re drunk. You will say ANYTHING to shut people up. You will tell them the good, the bad, and the oh so ugly.

5)      Finding Farts to be funny

When you were little, literally the funniest thing someone could do was fart. When your dad/uncle/whoever asked you to pull their finger, how fast did you run your little butt over there? I’m sure you could have beaten the Flash. And when you were with other people and someone did it, you laughed. It was funny, how could you not! High-school came and went, and you mastered the silent fart so that no one would really know who stunk up the science room.  But now you’re in your twenties, and you know what? Farts are cool and funny again! Seriously folks, all you have to do is sit in a room full of twenty something year old males. Within, I would say a half hour; one of them will let out a violently loud fart, with some sort of physical action so that others know they farted. And what will everyone do? Laugh. They will laugh and laugh and laugh, because it is funny. Then they might suffer a methane induced coma, but at least they were happy.

6)      Make-believe

Everyone knows that when they were little they participated in make-believe. They would pretend to be this, or imagine that, and at the end of the day, they were invested in that character or idea that they had been. Children have great imaginations and unfortunately, it sometimes gets lost as we get older. Well how is this related to a twenty year old you might be asking. Simply, I respond. In High-school, you go through your reality shows, the trash of television. (Hey I watched it too, but calls it like I sees it) But as you get older, there are these shows that are introduced to you, shows that are so elaborate that you NEED TO INVEST YOUR LIFE INTO IT. (Game of Thrones and shows like that). You have to know what happens to this character, and who will marry who. Your mind is opened up again and once more you believe in dragons and elves, thinking that mayyyybe the government might be hiding them. Maybe not.

7)      Milking Sick Days

Alright, this mainly goes out to the men out there, but women, you might notice some of this too. As a child, if you ever got sick, my god you could have ruled the world. If your mother had given you a little bell, that thing was ringing off the hook. It was this magical thing. You called, mom came, and when you asked for something, she actually got it! I mean, when does that ever happen when you are healthy? But once you get old enough, you realize maybe you don’t want mom doting on you, because you’re not really sick and you really just want to watch the Winter Olympics all week. Well now you’re twenty-something, and you’re sick. You will milk that for everything it is worth. Sure your friends won’t tend to your beg and call, but if you don’t want to do anything, you have an excuse. Hate that bar? Eh I’m sick. Don’t want to try your girlfriend’s famous tuna sausage casserole?  My stomach hurts babe. Trust me. This will get you a lot farther than you think.

8)      Enjoying the Simple things

What was the best part of Christmas/holiday past? Opening presents. It normally didn’t matter too much what was inside the box, you just knew that someone cared enough to wrap up something for you and give you a gift. That might have been enough, well that and the cool popping bubble paper. Really if my parents gave me that, I would have been happy. Then you got older and it was this and that. Bigger things and more elaborate. And YES it was wonderful to get those great gifts. Again your parents showed they loved you enough to listen and get you what you wanted. However as you get to this magical twenty age, simplicity moves back in. You start to realize, I’m kind of poor. So any free anything is great! This year for example, I got shaving cream. I couldn’t have been happier. That meant that I didn’t have to spend money on another for an extra two months! You realize that as long as the thought was there, that you are happy. And let’s face it, we all really like it when grandma just hands us a twenty.

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