Being An Adult Research Paper

There are many responsibilities of being an adult. Being an adult does not mean that someone can go out and buy cigarettes, alcohol, or lottery tickets whenever he or she wants. Being an adult means having responsibilities of bills, taking one’s self to the doctor, and managing one’s money. The definition of an adult in the dictionary is: a person who is fully grown or developed. There are many adults today that still act like teenagers and do the same activities that teenagers do. This is one of the longest responsibilities of someone’s life, so they should enjoy it and live it to the fullest. It can be very stressful at times, but it is all worth it in the end. Tina Garfield just turned eighteen, along with her twin sister Tiana Garfield. Tina is now a young adult, but still lives with her parents. She has a job at Hardee’s and makes around one-hundred and fifty dollars a week. She usually spends her money on clothes, make-up, shoes, etc. She does not have any bills like her parents and sits around at home and never helps her parents out. Her parents do not know, but she has been smoking since she was thirteen-years-old. She got the cigarettes from this eighteen-year-old …show more content…
Once someone turns eighteen-years-old they are considered an adult by law, but until they know the responsibilities of being an adult, they will not be an adult. They are many “adults” in this world by age, but by maturity, they will never be one. Tina is an example of this. She ruined her life because she did not want to mature. Everybody has this thought that being an adult is so easy, but it is not. Adults have to manage their money well for their bills and they can not spend their money on whatever they want. They have priorities and those priorities come before everything else. Tiana knows this very well as she has many bills and also a child that she has to take care of. Tiana will have a wonderful and successful life that she will