Essay On Being An Adult

When I see the question "what are the essential qualities of an adult?". Many ideal qualities such as fortitude, responsibility, empathy, and integrity pop up in my mind. However, not everybody will become one of those people who carry these "ideal qualities". There are many factors that will affect a person when they change from an adolescent to an adult. People may have different views on what it means to be an "adult" due to different cultural backgrounds and daily life influences. Nevertheless, in my opinion, the qualities that are essential in order for someone to qualify as an adult include financial stability, marriage, and mental maturity. To me, being financially independent and stable is an important quality for adults. Being

To people around me and myself, marriage is one of the biggest life-concerning matters on the journey of adulthood. Especially in my culture, I am expected to marry at a young age. Gender stereotype also comes in place in marriage. Woman are expected to get married at a younger age compared to men because most men want to get married after they become financially stable so they have the ability to support the family. In my culture, men take care of most of the financial needs of a family where women are expected to become family wives and take care of anything within the family. I have always been told that I need to learn how to cook and clean the house when I was a teenager. Marriage signifies the move from one existing family into a completely new family, or even joining another family. When I get marry, I will be joining my husband 's family instead of building a new family with just my husband and I. This is part of my cultural tradition that women reside in the men 's family after they get marry. Families with daughters generally "lose" a family member when she gets married while families with sons "gain" a family member when he gets married. Either way, building up a family means bigger responsibility for oneself. Marriage is a big stage in life. Once I get married, I am no longer living for myself. Every action I take should consider my family members. Learning to manage temper and anger is also

Mental maturity is the most difficult quality to achieve amongst the three qualities I mentioned. For the reason that mental maturity is built up by experience and experience grows with time. Thus, people usually think that older people are more mature than those who are younger. Maturity is something that youngsters will never have, no matter how sophisticated they are. In my opinion, life has a way of tempering the individual that is not achievable by any other means than having to live through it and deal with it. The more experience in life results in better decision-making that yields more logical results for most problems. When encountering problems, everyone has a different way of looking at it and dealing with it. However, I believe that the person with more experience will deal with the problem more reasonably. I classify myself as "mature" when compared to people at the same age. I believe that I have experienced a lot of things most people haven 't at this age. I love trying new things and aren 't afraid of failure because I always believe that I only live once and there is nothing I should be fearful of. I have worked part-time ever since I was 16. I was a student-tutor, a certified first-responder, an event organizer, and now I am an owner of an online store and a pharmacist assistant. I also enjoy being in different places and meeting different people, as well as listening to their stories.