What I Have Come to Learn

When I began looking into what it means to be an adult and if our society forces children to grow up too fast I ended up discovering a lot about my own life and not just those around me. I started off viewing our society negatively, blaming our uncertainty and unhappiness on the mere idea of those around us pressuring us to become something we aren’t. I blamed our abrupt childhood on the thought that society forced us to grow up to fast and had too much influence on us. However, as I come to a conclusion with my work I have discovered just the opposite. Our childhood and when we choose to “grow up” is decided entirely on us. Those we let into our lives and have influence on us are solely our choice. And how we choose to live our lives and plan our future is mirrored off of those we surround ourselves with. I have come to learn that the only way we can be unhappy with our lives and how our futures turn out is if we let negative influences in and allow them to stay.  Being an adult doesn’t mean that you’re unhappy with your life, it means whatever you make it out to be.