The lingering whisper of adulthood

As I have said many times in the past, I'm not yet ready to be an adult. From everything I can gather, it seems to be a slow building momentum, where you daily make decisions that reflect your increasing maturity until you finally feel comfortable with the title 'adult'. However, in my case, I think maturity stands a better chance of sticking if it simply jumps out from behind a bush one day and tackles me to the ground. Then, if it can get me to say 'uncle' I will finally and officially concede to adulthood. In the meantime, I'm sticking with 'young adulthood' (you see? maturity is on to me already...it's sneaking the dreaded word in, and one day will somehow convince me to drop the young, and then, the beginning of the end...). But it seems to me that whatever my reluctance, already there are issues rearing their ugly head that indicate adulthood is waiting just around the corner. Take these for example:

• when I stop smiling, some of the little lines around my eyes don't go away (what is that!?!)
• I'm actually making my own dentist appointments with no prompting from a real grown up (still scared of the doctor though...)
• the other day I got a sample of anti-ageing cream in the mail, and I used it!
• I read an article on superannuation to better understand my retirement fund
• a tissue mysteriously made its way up into my sleeve the other day (this may have just been a weird fluke, but what if it's not???)
• suddenly there are grey hairs...not just one, but lots!
• Yesterday I chose the evening news over the simpsons (need I say more?)

Now, from my understanding, these are not necessarily unheard of things at the age of 29, but surely, SURELY they could have waited until I crossed the 30 barrier... You know what? This adulthood guy is tricky; I think he and maturity guy might be joining forces to take me down. If so, it would seem my obsession with age will need to come to an end, to usher in the era of "age is only a number" (the quickest way to make you feel young, even while your house is burning down around you from the fire started by the candles on your birthday cake).