Daily writing prompt

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

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If anybody has ever seen the movie Big, (which I have not reviewed yet,) I think I’m a lot like Tom Hanks’ character in this movie. I’m a man in his mid 30’s who still acts like a child despite living on my own, managing my own finances ETC. At 34 years old, I still regard my mother as the go to person in my life and I have a hard time doing anything I’m supposed to do in my own life, (going to doctor’s appointments, taking calls from other people besides her,) ETC without first calling her. Speaking of that, I tend to call her much more than I should for a person my age. This is something that was intended to make her happy after I moved in. It was a decision I made in accordance with a talk we had before I left home that no matter how old I got, I would put nobody else above her as she is the most important person in my life. While this drives a lot of people besides her crazy, ironically it drives her crazy and each day she tells me I call too much and even puts restrictions on when I should call her, telling me I should wait for her to call back when she misses a call rather than attempt to call her multiple times, ETC. Unfortunately, my response of “mom this should make you happy since I call you before anybody else/care about you more than anybody else, ETC only serves to annoy her even more as she has been known to tell me that I need to have my own life and not to put other people off if I haven’t talked to her yet, (more specifically my staff who provide me care,) and telling me that she wishes I had my own life so I wouldn’t be able to call her as much. Having said all of this, I know deep down that if I didn’t reach out for days on end, she would worry. I think she actually does appreciate the lengths I go to try and get in touch with her.

The answer to the question is that I still feel like a child even at 34 years old. This is made apparent by the amount of times I reach out to mom everyday even though it annoys her. I think deep down, we’re all children at heart. In my case though, I think it goes a little too far