“I hate being an adult. Because adulthood comes with expectations. And I did not expect that. Part 1/4”
This comic is a wonderful example of how your thought can change your feeling, your action, and the life that you live - and how you are the result of multiple thoughts interconnected with each other.
On a large scale, our character’s thoughts changed from “I hate being an adult because I do things expected of me” to “I free because I don’t think about others’ expectations of me”. However, the circumstances surrounding the character hasn’t changed at all; the world still exists, the people who surround our character still exists, the city and the country the character resides in still exists; the one thing that changed is the thoughts.
Picking apart some other smaller thoughts introduced in the comic, our character notes “Just like everyone else, I’m just playing the ‘role’ of an adult”. Thoughts create feelings, and feelings cause actions. The thought of needing to “playing the role” causes the character to have the feelings of difficulty, resentment, or pressure. This causes our character to do things they’d not rather do, and this action ultimately brings out an interesting result: it causes our character to act the role of an adult, just like everyone.
This may seem like an obvious statement, but the character may think this misery of playing an adult is an unavoidable consequence of living in a society as an adult. On the contrary, it is only the thought of needing to play the role that leads to the undesired outcome of living a pretend life.
The comic shows very well what kind of mindset or outcome you can have when you choose an alternative thought. What if you believe “I don’t need to fulfill other people’s expectations”? That thought will create feelings of inspiration and strength, and can lead to choosing actions that lead to a more desired lifestyle. Nothing changed but the thought. The character’s age, appearance, people surrounding them, society; nothing else changed but the thought
