Birthdays are exciting milestones in one’s life. It helps to involve presents and maybe some cake, but overall there is an aura of excitement.You are being celebrated: your friends and family showing they value you. The other side of birthday’s however, are the connotations that follow a particular age. The act of turning 18 is seen as a milestone; because you can vote on the next person that runs the country and are considered an adult in the eyes of the law. Then there’s the inevitable fact that from here on out the decisions in life will only get more like a difficult game of would you rather. No one talks about this though; it's all the glamour, the Instagram posts with the 18 emoji, and the 18 shaped balloons, but life starts to get complicated.
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There is absolutely no variety within the establishment. Wake up, 8 hours of school that has been structured the same since 7th grade, same friends, and then you go home. Now, one can argue that obviously, not every kid has the same high school experience and they may choose to be more “adventurous” with their decision making and/or choices made that everyone inevitably hears about the next day or sees on Snapchat. However, the general structure is the same. The feeling of safety and normalcy, the same. Whether you're a jock or a shy kid in the corner, you have been doing the same thing for 6 years but then you turn 18 and all of what you knew for that extended period of time is thrown to the wolves. Everyone goes through the transition and seems to be okay but, in the moment the emotions get hard to handle. The way in which one’s life has been for 6 years all shifts. My friends are what made my high school experience meaningful to me. I met mainly all of my friends in sophomore year, and since then, I’ve grown to love the seven of them more than I love almost anything. My high school friends are what made my high school experience. I woke up happy on even my worst days because I knew I’d see them, but now it is no longer guaranteed that they’ll be by my …show more content…
Pretty common well known fact. The unfortunate thing is people start to pass the older they get. When you turn 18, despite being expected to think like you just turned 41, the people around you begin to age too. I find that until I turned 17, I never really linked that when I turn older, my parents age too, my sisters age, my grandparents age, my dogs age. Most of these people have been around my entire 18 years: their presence in my life seems guaranteed. But because of that, their ages put them closer to passing. My dog who I've had since I was 7, is now at the age where death is just looming around the corner. It just so happens at 18, people really start to get older. People can die at any age though, sadly enough, but I don't know at 18, it seems to reach its
There is absolutely no variety within the establishment. Wake up, 8 hours of school that has been structured the same since 7th grade, same friends, and then you go home. Now, one can argue that obviously, not every kid has the same high school experience and they may choose to be more “adventurous” with their decision making and/or choices made that everyone inevitably hears about the next day or sees on Snapchat. However, the general structure is the same. The feeling of safety and normalcy, the same. Whether you're a jock or a shy kid in the corner, you have been doing the same thing for 6 years but then you turn 18 and all of what you knew for that extended period of time is thrown to the wolves. Everyone goes through the transition and seems to be okay but, in the moment the emotions get hard to handle. The way in which one’s life has been for 6 years all shifts. My friends are what made my high school experience meaningful to me. I met mainly all of my friends in sophomore year, and since then, I’ve grown to love the seven of them more than I love almost anything. My high school friends are what made my high school experience. I woke up happy on even my worst days because I knew I’d see them, but now it is no longer guaranteed that they’ll be by my …show more content…
Pretty common well known fact. The unfortunate thing is people start to pass the older they get. When you turn 18, despite being expected to think like you just turned 41, the people around you begin to age too. I find that until I turned 17, I never really linked that when I turn older, my parents age too, my sisters age, my grandparents age, my dogs age. Most of these people have been around my entire 18 years: their presence in my life seems guaranteed. But because of that, their ages put them closer to passing. My dog who I've had since I was 7, is now at the age where death is just looming around the corner. It just so happens at 18, people really start to get older. People can die at any age though, sadly enough, but I don't know at 18, it seems to reach its