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Your Major Life Events, According to Stock Photos

Who says being an adult is hard? Graduating from college, living with roommates, meeting that special someone—what could be better? Take it from stock photos: Growing up is nothing but fun, games, and smiley faces doodled on moving boxes.

The best part of college graduation? The way this diploma feels against my skin.

My best friends and I just moved in to our first place. But before we unpacked everything—we just had to build a fort.

The great thing about living with these girls? Julie does all the cleaning, while I get to sit around and play video games!

I love filling our apartment with new décor, like this fuzzy rug.

After a few months of steady paychecks, I'm ready to buy a new car. I absolutely fell in love with this one!

I just met the most amazing guy. On the weekends, we like to lay around and dream about what the future will hold.

Things are getting pretty serious, and we decided to move in together. Moving time again!

Luckily, our friend Mike offered to do all of the unloading for us, while we showed off our keys for all the new neighbors.

We're excited to make this place our home, so we're doing some renovations. Painting is pretty dangerous, so we made sure to put on our hard hats.

After we got settled, we decided to get a cat, who isn't scared of us at all!

Maybe next time we move, we'll have kids. And we'll all live happily ever after!