I turned 18 this past weekend, and although I wasn’t really sure what I was expecting, it fell short of whatever that was. I didn’t expect to feel like an adult or anything, but I feel like the media hypes turning 18 up so much that I really couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed. And, to clarify, it’s not anything my friends or family did, they were great at helping me celebrate.
My main theory is honestly me, like many teenagers, have felt like an adult for a long time. The only distinction is now I am seen as an adult in the legal sense. But I mean, responsibility wise I have felt like an adult for a long time (here I am using adult very loosely, think more like college student adult, rather than like 40 year old adult). I prepare most of my meals, I cook, I drive myself to school, I keep myself organized and to a deadline.
So, I guess I can get a tattoo without parental consent, or enlist in the army, but other than that, my mentality hasn’t changed.
I just felt like this was an interesting phenomena that I discovered.
-Kiera
