The Importance Of Being My Own Person

There is a strange transitional period from being bottle fed by your parents or guardians, to being your own independent person and someone who makes their own decisions.The age in which this transformation occurs is different for every individual. When we are growing up, we don 't have a many freedoms as adults do. In turn, we also don 't have as many responsibilities as kids. Some freedoms we gain as we grow up. Growing up you gain liberties and responsibilities, but these opportunities, steps toward brightening your future, largely overweigh the obligations that a young adult incurs. We gain freedom by being able to make our own choices, like voting and controlling our own income and how much we chose to spend on things like necessities and luxuries.

I worked as a referee for soccer, usually for players aged eight to fourteen. In order to become a ref I had to take a clinic for eight hours and learn all the rules, and ins and outs. When the eight hour class was finished, I had to pass a test in order to get my license, and I did. My father would drive me to the fields where I would referee, generally at Lodi, Wadsworth, or Medina. I worked mostly Sundays with the occasional weekday games, making roughly forty to fifty dollars a game. Most of the money went into my pocket, but some of it went to my Dad to pay off for the fees for the class, the uniform I had to purchase, and occasionally treating him to ice cream for his time. With the money I was able to make from my new job, I could spend my own money freely on the things I wanted instead of needing money from my parents. I could go out with friends more often and buy more things for myself because I had more money to