Not everything obviously. But at least the important things.

Taxes.

Mortgages.

How to bleed a radiator.

How to put fitted sheets on without dislocating a finger.

Turns out adulthood is mostly just confidence mixed with Google.

I’m 39 now.

I’m a dad.

I’ve got a mortgage.

I run jobs.

People ask me questions at work and sometimes I answer them while quietly thinking:

Don’t ask me mate, I just googled “how did I pull my shoulder while taking my socks off”.

Nobody warns you how weird getting older is.

Because physically, I feel about 73.

Financially, I feel about 24.

Mentally, I’m a lot wiser, but still get anxious like i’m 17 years old and the gaffer says he wants a word.”

Recently I started learning more about investing.

Which is strange because one part of me feels excited.

The other part quietly wonders how different life would have looked if someone had explained compound interest before I spent my twenties buying things from the pub vending machine and financing cars I absolutely didn’t need.

Then there’s fatherhood. Fatherhood is weird because your child looks at you like you know everything.

Meanwhile I spent twenty minutes this week Googling:

“Can toddlers survive on only chocolate?, after my toddler told me he can survive only on chocolate”

And then spent ten minutes checking if I definitely locked the car. Again.

My brain doesn’t switch off.

Most days I’m plaster boarding walls while simultaneously thinking about:

I think that’s the biggest shock.

You spend your childhood thinking adults have it figured out.

Then one day you become one and realise everyone is improvising. And no one tells you shit!

Some people are just better at hiding it.

Anyway.

That’s this week’s overthinking session finished.

I’m off to Google how to bleed a radiator

What part of adulthood made you realise everyone is mostly guessing?