Children acting like adults, and adults acting like children.

Yesterday, things reached a point where all the stress came too much for me to handle. I'm forced to be an adult in a world where all the adults act like children and I'm the only one who didn't get the memo that acting like a child was ok.

Let me say, though, I'm not a child. I'm old enough to buy alcohol. But I'm kinda new to the adult world and I was certainly not prepared for people to act like this. I thought high school was over and done with?

I thought the petty gossip was over, I thought the bullying was through, I thought we were old enough to NOT throw our toys out of the sand box.

Apparently, I'm very wrong.

I can be a very straight-to-the-point person at times [ok, let's be honest - most of the time]. If someone is wrong, they are wrong and here's the right answer, learn from it and let's get on with life.

You committed a crime? Hell yes you better say you're sorry AND MEAN IT and pay your dues. You are no exception and are not superior to anyone else.

You wanna cut the line? No way, you get your ass to the back of the line and wait your turn JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

What gives you the right to take control over others' lives simply because you want to, or you think you have every right to?

You get pissed because someone doesn't do something the way you order it to be done, so you think you can punish them until they comply with your outrageous demands? Really, assholes?

Here's a fun fact for all you people who think like that:

PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THAT AND THEY WILL [eventually] RETALIATE.

Or rebel.

I prefer rebellion over retaliation, personally. Don't ever stoop down to someone else's level simply because you might want them to feel the same pain you're stuck with feeling. That bully is going to win. Simple as that.

It's up to those who don't mind giving shit right back to people who dish it out. The number one rule in our house when I was growing up? Don't dish it out of you can't handle it.

If you want to be the playground bully, that's cool. Just don't bitch and cry like a four-year-old when someone one day decides to snap back and look for a sympathetic shoulder, because you won't have one around. 
Here are a few easy ways you can be mature and adult in a childish world:  

#1 - Be responsible for your actions. 

#2 - Be the bigger person and don't get down to the other person's level. First of all, you can't fix stupid, and secondly, who wins at a fools argument?

#3 - Know when enough is enough, and when to walk away. This is very similar to #2.

I mean, seriously. When did the world start going backwards?