ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige
I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to “think about the future”
Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.
when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as “14 year old girl purple” (through what’s wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I don’t know, even if they’re not what I want as an adult). They didn’t believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a “dark purple”, it would be “depressing”. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.
I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.
But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)
And the moral of the story is: Fuck ‘em, please yourself. Either they’ll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.
This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be “mature” about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that I’m 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, I’m just like “marriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.” If they don’t like it then they don’t have to come to my wedding.
https://xkcd.com/150/
And this is why the ceiling of my bedroom is high gloss dark blue with glow-in-the-dark constellations.
Every time I go in there and lie on my bed, it’s just the best god-damned feeling. Made sweeter because I chose it myself, from all the possible things I could have done, and I painted it myself and it was so worth it. This is the absolute most satisfying part of adulting. I’m 34 folks and I’ve got glow-in-the-dark constellations on my ceiling and I put them there myself.
I moved recently and since I still live with my mother (I’m 15 don’t @ me) i had to ask her permission to paint my walls. Now when I said colours this woman thought “oh he’s just going to do one or two solid colours it’s fine” but no. Oh bitch no because when I see an exploitable loophole I will damn well exploit it. Half my room is and abstract rainbow-with-metallic-highlights treevine/tentacle sorta thing, and the other half is sci-fi fandom shit in outer space. Why the two halves you ask? Because I’m an artist, an overachiever and incredibly indecisive. Was my mother pissed of as hell? Yes. Did she smack me for it? Hell yes. Did she try to paint over it? Ofc. Does she still hate it and give me mad shit for it almost 6 months later? Absolutely. Do I regret it? Not for a fucking second because I’m damn proud of these here walls of mine even if they cost me 200$ in paint and getting slapped a few times. Also I’ll do anything to piss off my asshole of a mother.
Cost YOU $200? Or was it her money
