Coming Of Age

Coming of age is an important factor in our limited life span. It represents our stages of life within this world, and how each stage is represented with a difference in our personality, maturity, and responsibilities. It is defined as one learning a lesson, and undertaking a new responsibility after undergoing a new obstacle in life. Coming of age is a young person’s transition from childhood to adulthood. Once the change has begun, you cannot turn back and you must accept the new challenges ahead and take responsibility for what you must face.

Back when I was a kindergartener, I would’ve never thought I would reach the day when elementary school flushed into my life. I was nervous, yet excited as I entered elementary school for the first time in my life, for it was a completely new experience for me to handle. It was a most exciting experience for me as I learned math, science, and many other’s that I never knew before. But it also held great responsibility for me as I now had to make sure my grade was on top. It was a great change from what kindergarten was like for me, yet I took the opportunity and changed into a whole new stage of life.

Fifth grade graduation came into view as I journeyed on into middle school. Now this is where it hit me the hardest. Middle school was absolutely different from elementary school from locker’s to classes. It was like me hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger turning into a governor, a totally new experience laid at hand. Middle school was especially hard for me as I needed to pay special attention to my grades, my social life, and my personality. I had just recently moved into this city, so I needed to make new friends that I never knew before, and adapt myself to their way of living, talking, and acting. T.A.K.S. test was an especially important factor at this stage of life that I was in. I put all my effort into studying hard and working to keep my grades up, and learning the most I can, yet also making new friends wherever I go. I stepped myself up as I learned a lot of new stuff, and morphed myself into something I never was before. I picked up new responsibilities of doing my homework and finding myself at a very busy rate in life. But nothing would prepare me for high school. High school hit me like a bomb. It fell on me and splattered in all different directions. Some parts went to my stress to get good grades, and some pieces of me went to getting a better social life. High school classes were extremely difficult and different from anything middle school ever was. Now my homework needed to be done before every two days, and my parents put pressure on me to get better grades. I knew I had to work hard in high school in order to get a good GPA, which in return will possibly get me into a good college that I like. Working hard is a whole new responsibility I took upon entering high school, as I had to work all night in order to keep my homework up to date. My sleeping schedule was also permanently damaged as I worked till 12:00 A.M. to finish my work. My head never felt worse as I tried to keep myself ahead of schedule on my work and dealing with new responsibilities splattering me head on from all sides. But I knew that one day my hard work would be paid off as I enter a good college I want, get a good job that I like, and live a good life that I have finally worked so hard to earn. By going through all these stages in my life, I have learned responsibility and my entire life transformed into something totally different. I have advanced from childhood into something more, and all parts of me changed as I took a turn in life trying something new and also being forced upon a new environment that was completely alien to me. It is this, which has leaded me to become what I am today and how my life is right now. My coming of age is when I went through and passed all these hardships and obstacles, and morphing into something entirely different with new responsibilities that I must understand and accept as part of my new life.