VIRGO  It's not like you're searching for tenderness and friendship in this harsh and competitive world, but when you accidentally stumble across it today you'll realize how much you needed it.

Oh I know. I need it like hell. I just know also not to count on any such thing.

And here is a weird thing about adulting: don't break it to others, that they should probably recalibrate their expectations lower. They are still persons of faith in humanity even if you have become cynical, and they might never be disappointed if you yourself do not disappoint them. So keep your burdens to yourself, and espouse faith in people and in God and/or in abstractions of goodness (justice, kindness, etc.). That is the real load to carry as a grown up. It isn't paying the bills or whatever, that you can do or not be able to and then be able again, that is hard but is not the Hard part. The Hard part is faith. Being an adult is acting like you have faith convincingly, even if you've lost it, for the sake of those who have not lost it yet and who have faith in you.