I believe in being young. For the longest time, I couldn’t wait to be grown up, like all other kids.I was sick of my ideas being ridden off as naïve because I don’t agree with what my parents believe.I hated being excluded from certain conversations and having to be sheltered from the truth because I’m ‘too’ young.Although I know that some things I may be too young for, my family doesn’t give me a chance to demonstrate the understanding that I really do have.I wanted to be older to fit in with them and be given the credit I deserve now. Watching my oldest sister go through a pregnancy and my other sister hold a steady job and go to college made me really rethink what I want.As mature I feel sometimes, I realized that I don’t want to have those any of those responsibilities yet.It made me realize that I should enjoy my youth instead of anticipating adulthood. I feel like my brother is the only one of my siblings who truly enjoyed being young.He wasn’t set out to make my mom miserable or to make life easier for her, he was just having fun.Although sometimes he may have taken it too far, he never went to the extremes that my sister, Casey, did, but also wasn’t as boring my other sister, Justine, was.Justine is twenty-one and now she wants to have fun, but she can’t allow herself to have too much because she has taken on too many responsibilities.My brother amused himself as a teenager then, found a career that he loves, which is cooking. He did an accelerated program at a culinary school which also allowed him two externships.He took those then, continued traveling.In a way, I’m jealous of my brother because he gets to do something that makes him happy and gets to see the world at the same time, but when I’m his age I hope I’ll be doing something like he is.He’s living his life the way everyone his age should be, without hesitation. I believe kids should take their time growing up.I always here adults saying how much they miss being young, so instead of wasting my youth waiting to be grown-up, I want enjoy it.I want to have fun so I can have stories to tell my children when I finally am grown-up and have a family.Now is the time to experience new things and take advantage of all the energy we have.Taking new chances and exploring everything that is offered to us. It doesn’t bother me anymore that my family might find me immature because, as much as some of hate to admit it, everyone my age is.And I believe that’s okay because this age is the time to be.The only big responsibility that we should have is school, and everything else should be fun for us.It might sound selfish, but I don’t believe that enjoying you childhood is selfish at all.
For the longest time, I couldn’t wait to be grown up, like all other kids. I was sick of my ideas being ridden off as naïve because I don’t agree with what my parents believe. I hated being excluded from certain conversations and having to be sheltered from the truth because I’m ‘too’ young. Although I know that some things I may be too young for, my family doesn’t give me a chance to demonstrate the understanding that I really do have. I wanted to be older to fit in with them and be given the credit I deserve now.
Watching my oldest sister go through a pregnancy and my other sister hold a steady job and go to college made me really rethink what I want. As mature I feel sometimes, I realized that I don’t want to have those any of those responsibilities yet. It made me realize that I should enjoy my youth instead of anticipating adulthood.
I feel like my brother is the only one of my siblings who truly enjoyed being young. He wasn’t set out to make my mom miserable or to make life easier for her, he was just having fun. Although sometimes he may have taken it too far, he never went to the extremes that my sister, Casey, did, but also wasn’t as boring my other sister, Justine, was. Justine is twenty-one and now she wants to have fun, but she can’t allow herself to have too much because she has taken on too many responsibilities. My brother amused himself as a teenager then, found a career that he loves, which is cooking. He did an accelerated program at a culinary school which also allowed him two externships. He took those then, continued traveling. In a way, I’m jealous of my brother because he gets to do something that makes him happy and gets to see the world at the same time, but when I’m his age I hope I’ll be doing something like he is. He’s living his life the way everyone his age should be, without hesitation.
I believe kids should take their time growing up. I always here adults saying how much they miss being young, so instead of wasting my youth waiting to be grown-up, I want enjoy it. I want to have fun so I can have stories to tell my children when I finally am grown-up and have a family. Now is the time to experience new things and take advantage of all the energy we have. Taking new chances and exploring everything that is offered to us.
It doesn’t bother me anymore that my family might find me immature because, as much as some of hate to admit it, everyone my age is. And I believe that’s okay because this age is the time to be. The only big responsibility that we should have is school, and everything else should be fun for us. It might sound selfish, but I don’t believe that enjoying you childhood is selfish at all.