This is an interesting prompt, funny enough I think the first time I felt like an adult was when I wasn’t actually an adult but I had some work experience during school and I chose to help out at a nursery.
I think it was the first time I actually had proper responsibility over someone a lot younger than me. Before I knew it I was telling them to “share” and saying something like “Hold my hand” and “Don’t touch that” I went away from it, with a shock, that these tiny children actually listened to me and I sounded like my Mum, haha!
I think I was sixteen or fifteen at the time and while I liked kids (Not that I want children for myself) I never really thought of myself as a figure they’d take seriously and listen too, so it was astounding to me they actually did.
Now feeling like an adult right now? While I am actually an adult? I have moments when I’m like, hey I actually feel like an adult but a lot of time I don’t. I do find that for me, feeling like a grown up, is when I feel in control and independent, but that sometimes can feel hard to grasp while I am still living with my parents, still looking for a job I want to do long term and not able to afford to move out.
I often still feel like I’m a teenager, stuck in this house, not moving forward. I feel like I’m moving forward though, when I’m traveling and I hope to do more of that next year.
Sometimes I like feeling like a teenager still but other times I wish there was some sort of potion you could swallow that make you “act” like an grown up, be mature and responsable in any given situation that you need too.
But I guess, that isn’t what life is about.
TravelCD 
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