When I was younger, I always wanted to be an adult. I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed a happy childhood, but something about being an adult mesmerized me. As I've gotten older, however, I've realized the naivety of this misconception and I've seen the struggles of adulthood firsthand.Back then, I had no idea that my transition to adulthood would occur much sooner than expected and in a way that no one should have to endure. When I was sixteen years old, my transition to adulthood was marked by my unexpected responsibility as a caregiver for my ill mother. At the beginning of the summer of 2014, my mother became tragically ill after a hectic emergency room visit. Afterwards, extensive testing revealed that she had several serious medical conditions including atrial fibrillation, mitral valve disease ,and congestive heart failure. After her stay in the hospital, she was sent home with new medications and assured that her conditions could be easily managed. A short amount …show more content…
Everyday, I thank God for her health and I'm grateful to myself for all that I was able to do for her. I would absolutely consider the time of my mother's illness as my transition to adulthood because I learned what adulthood meant. To me, adulthood isn't about independence, but it is about responsibility and putting others before myself. In the summer of 2014, I unfortunately learned this lesson the hard way, but as a result my mother is now healthy and I have learned the inconsistency of life. In my transition to adulthood, I was able to step up and take care of the mother who had always been there for me. As a strong and independent single mother, she has always been my hero and the epitome of the adult I always strived to be. Seeing her in her vulnerable state during her illness didn't change my opinion of her, it strengthened it as I learned about the responsibilities, expectations, and sacrifices that adulthood and maturity
Maturity, arguably one of the most important pieces to the puzzle of adulthood, is what determines your decision-making process and judgment, especially in adolescents. Every living organism must go through the stage of adolescence before they mature to adulthood, which is ultimately formed from their personal rite of passage. “Maturity,” by poet Larissa Lane hits the nail on the head in terms of
J. J. Arnett argues his theory about a developmental stage individuals go through of 18-25 year olds as a new concept, (Arnett, 2000, pp. 469). He describes emerging adulthood as being a sustained period of time where this age group, as mentioned previously, explores their roles preceding being an adult. These movements can include events similarly by taking longer than previous years to get married and have children, moving back in with their parents at a point during this age span, exploring self-identities, not feeling like an adult and feelings of self-failure. James E. Cote, who is a previous colleague of Arnett argues the opposite about this concept being an unexperienced developmental stage Arnett calls, “Emerging Adulthood”. Cote states
In 1990, my aunt Ann started experiencing heart-problems. My family was very close to Ann because she lived only a block away. Aunt Ann would walk over to our house everyday for a visit. During this particular summer, Ann noticed that she was becoming increasingly out of breath from just the short walk. The entire family strongly urged that she see a doctor as soon as possible.
Everyone that have ever lived to adulthood, understand that difficulty of the transition to it from childhood. As of right now, I am in the prime of the “coming of age “transition. The overwhelming pressure of our society that forces the adolescence to assimilate the social norms is felt by many. Just as in our first steps, our first words or anything that is expected in our human milestones, coming of age is one of them. It may variety from different societies, religious responsibility or modern legal convention; everyone had to reach this point eventually.
Emerging adults are always in the search of their own identity while experimenting with their life, love life and career path. Constant changes in emerging adult’s life are common. From changing residential place to love life, work and education, instability often presents during emerging adulthood (Santrock, 2013). In addition, emerging adults tend to place focus on themselves where they have no commitment and responsibilities toward others. This provides them a great chance to exercise their own will and to execute their plans for the future. During emerging adulthood, many feel like as if they do not belong to either adolescents or adult. The transition ends only when they have distinct marks of an adult. According to Arnett (as cited in Santrock, 2014), “emerging adulthood is the age of possibilities” (p. 296). The age of possibilities is when an individual has the opportunity to turn things around in life, especially when they are from a poor family
When do children become adults? No one for sure really knows. Some people think it’s the day you turn 18 others think it’s a mental thing.I know that I really don’t need to know how to be an adult quite yet, but I still have an opinion. Well I think that they are both wrong, I think you become and adult when you are at the age when you seek independence. That could be any age because everyone matures at a different times. The ways you can seek independence is by getting a job, letting go of parents, and taking your education seriously.
A time in my life where I believe that I started to transition from childhood to adulthood took place at YMCA Camp DuNord, through a program called the leadership development program (LDP). During the program I was able to spend time with groups of kids and families up in northern Minnesota at a family camp. And it’s pretty amazing how you can make an impact on kids. It might not be that drastic for every child but it is fun to see them laugh, think, communicate with others and try new things during his or her week at camp. Being a teenager, you’re at that age where those younger kids are looking up to you as adults. Having that feeling is pretty amazing if you think about it and being able to positively influence a kid’s life is pretty powerful. Not only interacting with kids helped me mature, talking to all different age levels of people improved my listening and communication skills. The whole experience
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.
Hey my is Bob.I was 46 year old when I was killed.On July 19,2830 I was working on a human and see can I bring him back alive and making a new life. So one day I was getting the things I need to make the human. I was making a human by starting to put the bones together.
When I was younger, I use to think you were considered bieng an adult at the the age of Eighteen. I guess the excitement of growing up fast all began with the idea of freedom. But in all its actually not that fun, bieng an "adult". My body became stress, deppresion, and anxiety. I had so many responsibilities at sixteen that I started to quesion my own future. How was I suppose to fulfill my dreams with so much dependency on my back? Bills, cleaning, cooking. Guess you can say I never really got to enjoy my childhood. I was to busy watching out for my family, and picking up my moms messes. I thought my mom was suppose to be the one taking care of me? I remember crying myself to sleep every night. Why couldnt I just live the life of a normal teenager. It was too much for me at that moment, but as time passed, I began building such skills I would need as an adult with out even realizing it. Who knew it would come to change my perspective on life, and make me who I am today. A responsible, independent, adult.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
There are two different but similar stages in a person’s life: childhood and adulthood. I remember when I was a child, all I ever wanted to do was being an adult. Now that I am an adult or semi adult, I wish to be a child again. Looking back at my childhood everything seemed so easy. Now that I’m out in the “real world” everything seems to be ten times harder. As we continue to grow and develop we go through several stages of life. These characteristics can be distinguished by these similarities and differences: our thoughts in each stage, our actions in each stage, and our experiences.
However, I have to the realization that adulthood, as terrifying and unpredictable as it may seem to me, is not as terrible as previously mentioned. My parents and siblings have gone through the struggles of maturity and adulthood and they were capable of growing up and being responsible. They were qualified to become adults because they followed the lessons that have been passed through our family. These lessons being: ‘responsibility is key to the journey of adulthood’, ‘one must learn that not everything is about them’, and ‘education and knowledge are important in
Becoming an adult, also known as young adulthood, is a very crucial stage in one’s life. This is the climax of physical and health processes. This is the point in life when we make plans of our futures. It is the time when we think of what life will be like as an adult and make plans for the future. Most importantly, it is when we lay the starting point for developmental changes that we will undergo throughout our lives. An adult is a person who is fully grown or developed. Some people believe that you become an adult when you are 18 years old, other believe you are an adult when you can legally buy and consume alcohol, that is, at age 21 in the United States. Others believe that you are an adult when you are supporting yourself
When you think of the word adult many things may come to mind; age, responsibility, being the bigger person and goals are just a few. Everyone eventually becomes an adult but just because you turn eighteen does not mean you should be considered as one. “I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody 's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you 're here. And when you don 't, well, you suffer the consequences.” (Adam Savage, brainyquote.com) Adulthood requires sacrifice and a good mindset. Sometimes people aren’t shown how to take care of themselves, this being either too babied or not having anyone to look up to. Growing up is hard but no one says you have to do it alone. It is nice to get advice here and there from those that have been through the newly-adulted stage. Being an adult is not just an age.