Adulthood was supposed to feel like freedom. Somehow, it turned into bills that never forget you exist, friendships that take three weeks to schedule, relationships that occasionally feel like administrative work, and mornings when you wake up already tired.

Most of us spend years believing that one day everything will finally make sense. We imagine confidence replacing uncertainty, responsibilities becoming easier to carry, and the constant feeling of falling behind eventually disappearing. Meanwhile, everyone else appears to have life figured out while we quietly wonder whether we missed the tutorial.

Why It Sucks to Be an Adult is an honest and darkly funny reflection on the parts of growing up people rarely admit out loud: exhaustion, comparison, fading friendships, lost expectations, the pressure to appear fine, and the imaginary future version of yourself you can never quite become.

Behind the humour is a gentler recognition. Struggling does not mean you are failing. You may not be where you once imagined you would be, but you have survived, adapted, carried responsibilities no one sees, and continued showing up through days that demanded more from you than expected.

For anyone who feels tired, overwhelmed, lost, or quietly disappointed by the distance between what adulthood was supposed to be and what it actually became, these pages offer laughter, recognition, and the comforting possibility that nobody has everything figured out—and that perhaps you are doing better than you think.