My Experience In My Life

When I was seventeen, fresh out of high school, I did not have a clue what I wanted to do or where I was headed in my life. I worked two jobs and stayed up all night studying. I got married and had my first child which led me to drop out and started working full time.

Young adulthood can also be referred to as the “emerging adult” stage. Some may characterize this stage as the point when an individual is in-between the struggles of adolescence and starting to feel responsible for themselves, but still closely tied to their parents and family. Emerging adulthood can be defined as an Age of identity exploration, Age of instability, Age of self-focus, Age of feeling in between, and the Age of possibilities. I believe that I am not a full- fledged adult yet because I am still going through the junctures/stages that are still associates with the young adulthood phase.

The event that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood was when my father became ill. My parents would do everything for me they would take me to places, buy me things, and I was very dependent on them. I had to learn to be independent because my mom would take care of my dad, and I would have to do things for myself. This tragic transformation occurred on June 5, 2015; it truly changed my life. I could never imagine this would happen to my father. Even though it took me time to truly adapt to my new reality, I felt that the changes that led to me adulthood came quickly because there was no other option. I had to adapt to adulthood.

Have you ever been in a conversation where you have no clue what to say next. Have you ever been in a situation where you see someone you don't know and wanna talk to them but dont have the courage to say anything?

I am becoming a more mature person; I do not focus on petty things; I put what is important first. There are much better things to have my mind on and consume my time then trivial, high school, teenage drama. With becoming more mature, I became more independent; I do not have a job or a license, but I do not rely on my parents to do everything for me. After my mother started working, I knew I had to step up to help her take care of the house. Even now since my father lost two of his finger tips from an accident at work, I have stepped up helping her more than ever.

When I was little, I had a care-free mind; no worries at all. I did get tired of people saying I am too young to know this or how I need to be a little older to see this. I always dreamed of growing up and being an adult. Living on my own and doing what I want. The truth is growing up does suck. You have to pay bills, buy your own food, and drive everywhere. I had three life changing moments in 2016. I graduated high school, went into the military, and started college.

The moment I knew my life as a child was coming to an end and that my adulthood was beginning was the day I got my license and a vehicle that I could call my very own. It was like wow, an eye opening event for me. I realized freedom was at my feet. I could take off on my own and do whatever I needed to do without a parent always being there. My parents started making me drive to dentist and doctor appointments alone and schedule the next appointments. It was frightening at first but I realized someday eventually I would be on own someday and have to

Thousands of climbers have reached the highest point on Earth, hundreds have left our planet 2 and ventured into space, but only two people have descended to the deepest point in the ocean. 3 Scientists are looking to discover water on other planets without fully knowing what is in our 4 own oceans. Bearing in mind the planet is over 70% water, no more than 5% of that has been 5 explored. I want to study Marine Biology because I want to understand the most fundamental 6 feature of our existence.

Until a year ago, my life seemed effortless. I really thought I was a real adult. That was not the case. I was married for 20 years and raised children. I maintained a home and also worked. It all seemed like adult stuff to me. Unfortunately, my marriage ended and I found myself a single mom with a disability. That effortless life I had lived in no way prepared me for what was to come. I had to learn how to make decisions for myself. I am ashamed to admit that after a year of

Events, people, thoughts, or just waking up one day realizing your age can mark someone's transition from childhood to adulthood. This can be from not having anything to worry about anything, having fun all the time, to having responsibilities and realizing the choices you make can affect many other people. There is one event in my life that marked this day, the day I saw myself taking a responsibility that would change my life forever. I will admit it took me a long time till I realized it, it was the summer of 2016, my senior year. My band director, Jay Wardeska, pulled me into his office one day and said, “I have a question to ask you, and don’t do this if you do not want to. Don’t say yes right away either, think about it, it is a huge responsibility.” I was confused on what he could be asking me, and then he asked if I would like to play taps at the memorial day ceremony after the

People say that in life you will have some sort of epiphany and this will be your transition into adulthood. Some people have this coming of age early, while some don’t have it until they’re twenty or thirty years old. Some people never have a transition into adulthood, which is what you don’t want. For some people this happens subtly, and for others it’s like a slap to the face. For me, this coming of age happened the summer of my seventeenth birthday, and it happened faster than lightning.

As soon as I got to my grandmas I right away knew I wasn’t gonna like it, I started feeling useful and felt like if nobody cared. Knowing what type of older brother I was to my little sister and thinking about how she had to look up to someone who was always up to no good instead of looking up at someone who can accomplish things and being able to give them the best advice a older brother can give. All I wanted to do was to go back to my hometown with my parents even when I knew they no longer wanted me there. I Started looking for trouble because all I would be doing is getting myself stressed about things I shouldn’t be getting stressed over. Until my 18 birthday came along and right then and there I knew I wasn’t getting any younger but older, I knew it was time for me to change my ways and start having a better life that way my family can be proud for once for the things i can accomplish and what goals I can

Turning sixteen too many people means “yes, now I can get my first job!” That’s definitely what it meant to me. All I did was applied for jobs day in and day out with no results. Fast forward to four years later, and there I was twenty years old and still jobless. When you’re in high school it’s not a big deal but when you get older it is. Having to still ask my mom for money to buy things or to go out with my friends got old after I graduated. It made me feel like a burden because I am an adult.

At the age of 14, I moved to the United States. Like anyone who had welcomed changes in their life, I had hard time dealing with my new situations such as culture shock and financial problems. As soon as I stepped foot on this land, I was aware about my own adulthood. My adulthood hit me earlier than usual teenagers because I had great responsibilities and reliability for my family to be able to survive our new state. For example,

Adolescent’s can transition towards adulthood at any point in time during their life. Major events or even smaller tragedies can lead that switch of being just a regular child into a full grown adult within seconds, whether mentally, physically, and/or emotionally. This shift drastically impacted my life at the ripe age of nine years old. My transition commenced when my mother fell into the oblivion of her unknown illness which left me motherless and alone for months at a time.