I'm in my mid 20s and I still don't feel like a grown-up. I was supposed to have that maturity by now. That readiness for the big things, the decisions that supposedly come with age. I don't feel it. I see people my age making choices I'm nowhere near making, and I keep waiting for maturity to strike me the way it struck them.
It's not that nothing's happening. I'm making progress in life, whatever that means, but I genuinely can't tell you where my school-age self ends and my present self begins. It feels like one continuous person. I've watched friends change into different people, seemingly just because they crossed some age. Somewhere along the way they started having conversations I can't seem to join. It's not that they're excluding me, I just have nothing to add. They talk about things I haven't even started thinking about yet. That switch never flipped for me. I keep checking, and it's still off.
There's an old saying that wisdom teeth make you wise. I'm not even sure mine have come in yet. If they haven't, I guess I'm still waiting for them. Maybe they're my last resort.