Thursday, October 05, 2006
Adulthood.....
6 Days...8 hours...54 minutes... and...33 seconds. That is exactly how long before I am officially considered an adult. It is supposed to be one of the greatest moments of your life. The moment You can finally stretch your wings and fly, as there are a million more experiences just waiting for you to reach out and embrace them. However so, I believe that it is also a very menacing moment.
It is true that you can finally have that freedom you have been longing for, the power you have so desired the chance for you to stand on your own two feet and say, 'I and I alone have the right to have the last say in my life' sounds perfect. But, what about the other stuff? We always tend to leave out the more important things, for example the responsibility that comes with the freedom and power that we have. As is said, "With Great Power comes great Responsibility." Being an adult also means having to make many decisions on your own, many of them life changing ones. And if u think making the decision is the hard part you have got it all wrong because, it is not the decision making that is difficult as it only takes a moment to do so. The consequences of that decision however, that is a whole different story, as we will have to live with these consequences each and every day of our lives.
I am not saying that being an adult is all-bad, No. I am not a sadist and so that is not what I am saying. I know that becoming an adult also has its many perks and believe me when I say it has its perks...however, all I am saying is that a coin has two sides.
Being an adult also brings about many perceptions. One of the very common ones is, that adults are wiser when compared to children. This statement is true, but only to a certain extent. I believe that wisdom comes through knowledge and experiences rather than age. Although being an older person means you have technically had many more experiences, it does not necessarily mean that you have learnt anything from it. A teenager in this day and age may have gone through many experiences in his life, which has forced him to grow up way before his time and take the responsibility of an adult. Does this not give him wisdom? It is not how long you have lived that determines how wise you are but how you have lived.
Life can begin and end in just a blink of an eye, and so, it is important that we make the most of every moment, because we will never know, when our life is going to be taken form us. We will never have to be afraid of life if we live each day and each moment doing the right thing to the best of our abilities, because then, no matter what has happened, we can say 'I did my best' and we will have no reason for regrets.
***Rosanne***
Posted by ~**Beth**~ at 2:06 PM
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