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At What Point Did You Consider Yourself An Adult
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<blockquote data-quote="Blackhorse" data-source="post: 562814" data-attributes="member: 1365"><p>Being an adult has nothing to do age, size, assets, etc. I equate becoming an adult in our culture with a number of facets of our lives including “taking responsibility” in general…one’s actions, your future and path through life, being a friend and what that entails, behavior toward a girlfriend, one’s financial health, how you behave while driving, accepting your responsibility as a citizen, voting, etc., etc., etc.</p><p></p><p>Given the above, for me being an adult came incrementally. Though my family was “well off” I worked at one official job or another starting pretty much in high school. My father passed during my junior year in high school. I was not the best student by any means but did my part to keep moving forward and made it through university “on time”. All those were pieces of the whole but the real step was going completely against the social scene for youths of the time and enlisting in the military. Yes, the draft was there, breathing down my neck but it was a lottery then and my number was fairly high so I wasn't trying to avoid the draft, it was more like paying for my citizenship. It was something my father (an Army doctor during WWII) had drilled into me. So for me the day I was sworn in as “Regular Army” was the day I truly became an adult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blackhorse, post: 562814, member: 1365"] Being an adult has nothing to do age, size, assets, etc. I equate becoming an adult in our culture with a number of facets of our lives including “taking responsibility” in general…one’s actions, your future and path through life, being a friend and what that entails, behavior toward a girlfriend, one’s financial health, how you behave while driving, accepting your responsibility as a citizen, voting, etc., etc., etc. Given the above, for me being an adult came incrementally. Though my family was “well off” I worked at one official job or another starting pretty much in high school. My father passed during my junior year in high school. I was not the best student by any means but did my part to keep moving forward and made it through university “on time”. All those were pieces of the whole but the real step was going completely against the social scene for youths of the time and enlisting in the military. Yes, the draft was there, breathing down my neck but it was a lottery then and my number was fairly high so I wasn't trying to avoid the draft, it was more like paying for my citizenship. It was something my father (an Army doctor during WWII) had drilled into me. So for me the day I was sworn in as “Regular Army” was the day I truly became an adult. [/QUOTE]
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