Hello. Me name Boog. Me be Neanderthal in me twenty. Me be adult now and let me tell you me not like it one bit.
Adulthood not fun like school. School have many party where me drink dirty water and eat poison berry and feel very silly. Then me finish school and everyone say okay now start hunting. Me say wait wait wait. Me have always understand on conceptual level that hunting come after school but now it really sink in.
So me hunter now and hunting horrible. First of all me get pay very little. When they give out meat from kill me always get just small lump of chewy butt muscle. I guess it me own fault for study hunting in school. Me friend study engineering. Now he build the spear that me use for hunting and in return he receive big hunk of tender meat from rib. In school me laugh because he never have time to attend party and drink dirty water. Now me think maybe he smart to play long game.
Me never get enough sleep anymore. Me have no system to measure exact amount of sleep but me think me need at least two more unit per night. Every morning me rise before sun and by time me finish hunt it already dark outside. Also inside. Then me have to cook butt meat and eat and clean and wash loincloth and once me finish all that it be so late and me be so tired that me lucky if me can enjoy single cave drawing before fall asleep.
Plus me body no be what it use to be. In school me can eat many poison berry and drink much dirty water and still be happy at sunrise. In school if me break foot then me can just hop around for little while and feel fine soon. Now if me eat one poison berry or drink one handful dirty water me have headache for three sunrise. Recently me get mild scrape on me arm and almost die.
Me no see friend much now. Sometimes we make plan to drink dirty water after hunt but by time plan come around me have no energy so me say hunt go late again. Me think they know me lie but they secretly relieved so it okay. School friend all over place now. Me hear some do more school. Some procreate. Many get trample by mammoth. Far too many.
You may say well Boog why you no become friend with hunting pack. Me tell you. Many weird cohunter. One make too many dirty joke. One just total douchebag. He call me Big Guy even though he know me name Boog. I know he know because every Neanderthal be name Boog. He not nice but he call everyone Big Guy and he have pocket square in his loincloth so everyone assume he some sort of leader.
It be tough to meet partner nowadays. Sure there be way. If me desperate me can use dry twig and brush to make fire outside me cave and wait for partner to be intrigued. But tinder method very hit or miss. Even if me lucky enough to find partner there be whole new set of problem and pressure. Pressure to move in together. Then me cave no longer mancave. Pressure to have fifteen baby so maybe few become adult. Single little lump of butt meat cannot feed fifteen baby.
Probably most hard thing be realization that this be all there be from here on out. Me just hunt and sleep and do adult thing until me get trample by mammoth.
But me begin to come around too. Sure every day make me tired and stressed but me think most meaningful time of life be still to come. Also me have begin to make more active effort to do what make me happy like drink dirty water with friend. Engineer friend show me new invention he work on that be like square but instead of four flat side it have one round one. If me honest me no understand it at all but he say it will change world.
Adulthood bring new struggle but me think maybe me come to like it. Me look forward to remaining three year of life.
