We all have heard that, when we grow we've lots of responsibilities towards life. We never literally understand that until we reach that point of life.
Hi, I'm an 18 year old (teenager/newly entered adult). I just completed my 12th but can't enjoy my last year's and this year's summer, unfortunately because of ongoing pandemic. My life has changed completely from socialising to sitting at home and watching tv series on phone, from hangout with friends everyday to haven't seen them for months, life just switched on opposite side. It kind of changed us all in a way whether it is positive or negative, but I feel I lost 1.5 year of my life or I should say most important period of my life because I was getting promoted to teen age adulthood from high school a teenager.
At this point of life I'm supposed to decide what I want to pursue as my career and set a goal for next 3-4 years. At the same time I feel I could go out with my friends, live a normal life and spend perfectly normal time with friends and family because I don't know where I'm going to land next year for education or if I'll drift apart from close one's or my friends will head to their own lives and seperate. Now that I've turned 18, suddenly time is flying, life is rushing and I'm turning older in the blink on an eye and I realised that I can't do everything I wished when I was a kid, I'll have to prioritise only few things that will meet my interest and scope of money for living and affording life my parents offered to me. I understood why Life was easy when I was a kid because my parents offered me a peaceful and positive Life as much as they could but my dad always reminded me “you won't know how to swim until you fall into the water”.
It feels like I'm stepping in a new world, I'm making decisions for my life, I'll have to get into a college with tons of strangers, my friends are going abroad or in different cities for living their dreams, I might lose my friends in this upcoming years, I might get into a new company
( good/bad), I might make wrong decisions in life that will teach me a lesson or something I will regret and yes I'm scared of this changes now and I don't know what life will bring next but all I know is, I don't now to stop myself from enjoying this phase of my life ,growing with it and if something is meant for you it will last or come back to, till then I'd not make a mistake of stressing about it rather than being strong and confident to go through it and enjoy it.
