Personal Journey Essay: My Journey To Adulthood

My Journey to Adulthood My whole life I have lived with a single thought in the back of my mind, that thought haunted me sometimes and made me worry about who I might become as a person in the future. I always wondered what I was going to do with my life even when I was young. With the consistent pressure from my parents to work at a young age and to also keep up with my good grades, I began to develop a lot of stress. Through it all, I realized that enjoying time spending time with my friends and sitting on my latest console gaming all day was going to change. To me personally, my transition from childhood from adulthood was rather quick. I believe it all started when my parents started not getting along very well and ended up divorcing because they could not solve their issues. Fortunately for me, they settled things like adults and explained it to me at an older age so I was not that affected. Due to my mother’s financial situation, my dad was going to be the one to stay and raise me in our home that I was born in. This was slightly upsetting for me because my father and I did not have the best relationship together for a while. It was mostly my mother

But through it all, I am glad i developed through life the way I am, getting my first real job really help me but my best foot forward into the working world of being in adult. I learned a lot of new things, especially the darker and brighter parts of it all. It really helped push me to do other things that I was afraid to do, like getting my license and my car. I thank my father and my mother for being an influence even if it was negative a lot more than I would have liked. All of these events changed me and made me the man i am today, and I would never go back and change any of