Growing up isn't easy. It is constantly riddled with failure and disappointment as we come to terms with reality and the limitations of being human. You can't really focus on your existential crisis when you have bills to pay, can you?
It’s definitely challenging, the mental gymnastics of figuring out what is right and wrong while learning to make a cup of cappuccino which you will never drink.. or trying to figure out the laundry machine while everyone you know is hating on your latest life choices. In spite of these seemingly mundane challenges, we gain beautiful, wonderful rewards along the way. Friendship, love, stronger family bonds and meaningful relationships. A few moments of happiness are often more than enough to overshadow the triviality of tasks an adult human must complete and can even eclipse the harsh reality of the disappointment of a society that we have become. We learn to appreciate the finer things in life while figuring out what is most important to us.
The Paradox of Adulting is a collection of poems and short stories written over a period of more than a decade; the first one written when the author was only sixteen years old. It contains brutal truths, harsh realities and controversial topics in the form of the written word. The poems and short stories contain a variety of themes like love, lust, honesty, infidelity, marijuana, alcohol, sex, art and even BDSM. It is a hard-hitting work of art that every person who has ever felt anything in their lives must read.
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Krishna Agarwal
Krishna Agarwal is a chef by training, a writer by instinct, and a reluctant participant in the corporate circus. He began writing at sixteen—pouring raw emotion, twisted humor, and existential dread into journals, bar napkins, and eventually, a manuscript. The Paradox of Adulting is his debut collection, a brutally honest mix of poetry and prose that refuses to sugarcoat the messiness of love, lust, loneliness, and growing up. Blending culinary discipline with chaotic storytelling, Krishna writes the way he once cooked—boldly, passionately, and with zero tolerance for blandness. His work is equal parts rage and romance, soaked in whiskey, wrapped in regret, and always searching for meaning in the madness. When he’s not fighting deadlines or frying his neurons in fluorescent-lit boardrooms, Krishna is likely sipping something dark, chasing clarity, or riding the wave of another 3 a.m. thought spiral he’ll later turn into a story.
