Becoming 18 - how good is it?

Sara Miteva.

When you’re in high school, you start to like different things, you build your own perception of things and you start being pickier. And, you’re much closer to being 18, which I think is what everyone’s actually waiting for.

Becoming an adult means you can drive a car. Nowadays young people think it is a very important thing, especially for boys, because they think that will make them popular with girls. When you’re 18, you can also go out whenever you like and come back home whenever you like and going to the disco is also a very popular thing among young people today. You can travel to a foreign country without your parents signing a document, you can vote in elections and you can get married.

But is it all so great? When you’re 18 you can’t justify yourself that you’re still a child when you can’t do something. You have to be much more responsible. If you break the law, you’ll be the one being punished for that, not your parents. You have to make your own money, because your parents won’t be always here to cover you. One day you’ll also have to make a family, so you have to be able to take care of them.

To sum up, when you’re 18, you can’t hide under your mother’s skirt anymore. You have to go out and face the world. So, enjoy while you can, because soon you will understand why all the adults say that they want to go back to their childhood.