Signs You’ve Got Your Life Together

What mature adulting looks like

Leanne Mullan
5 min readAug 18, 2021
Photo by Vadim Sherbakov on Unsplash

I don’t know about you, but for the most part, I feel like my life is far from ‘together.’ Being a middle-aged woman should signify that I possess some semblance of maturity however, most days I still feel like a teenager, not really knowing what I want to do with my life or what I want to be when I grow up.

Some days I consider becoming a florist, other days I want to be a member of parliament and then there’s those days where I don’t get out of my pajamas, eat a family block of chocolate in one sitting and binge on a reality TV series.

Whilst just last week I was presenting in front of a corporate audience, literally just today in an online work meeting I spent five minutes talking to my colleagues about how uneven my nostrils look on my laptop camera. I kid you not!

I’m wondering whether there comes a day when all of a sudden, my years of living actually result in wisdom. I don’t know that I’ve got any wisdom yet as I still call my mother to ask her how to cook a roast beef. Also, how on earth can I successfully raise two vivacious kids of my own if I’m still asking my dad which screw driver is a Phillips head?

I guess I’ve become pretty good at pretending to be a confident mom despite having absolutely no idea what I’m doing…

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Leanne Mullan

Frazzled mom. Creative, nerdy, lover of green. Obsessively organized. Donut addict. Diabetes specialist. Doctor of Philosophy. Newsletter:drleannemullan.ck.page