Today I am going to criticize a little bit – and with that, please keep in mind that this is my opinion and not a bunch of facts I found.
As I have gotten older, I have grown increasingly appalled at some of the slang terms that have developed in our culture. For example, saying “cray”. Why would you say that? Was saying “crazy” and adding that one extra syllable that hard? Another example is “jelly” instead of jealous – why oh why would you replace a feeling with a condiment? There are plenty of other examples, but the one that irritates me the most right now is sayings such as “adulting” or “I adulted today”. This to me has to be about the silliest thing I have heard recently.
When did the word “adult” get transformed into being a verb? You are either an adult or you are not. You don’t get to pick and choose throughout the day when you are an adult – it’s a full time role. Now, your maturity level may differ during the day, and there are certainly moments where you may not be immediately responsible for something, but as an adult there are typically responsibilities around you all of the time. I also understand that we live in a culture where the lines between adolescence and adulthood are blurred. Sometimes I don’t always feel like an adult either, although being responsible for another human life has wiped away those feelings for the most part.
Overall, I am not here to say I am better than anyone because I detest this language. I just don’t get it. To me, it’s a waste of language and not really that amusing. If you are an adult, words like “adulting” should not be in your vocabulary, and I hope these terms disappear soon.