Unit Three - Assignment One: Preview Reflection Blog Post: Growing Up

Growing up is exciting and painful all at the same time. You get to have new experiences both good and bad. You enter a new school system complete with new friends and new challenges both to your ability to learn and your ability to withstand pressure from your new often brutal schedule.
As a young adult you have new opportunities; you can finally drive, a doubtlessly exciting ability which comes with trials of it's own: getting insurance, lessons and tests to get your licence, and of course convincing your parents that you can actually be trusted behind the wheel.
You'll have new responsibilities that make you feel more like an adult but also cut into your free time. You'll be expected to get a job, to be able to be trusted without adult supervision, to do more chores, and do your school work without help.
You get taller and can finally reach that top shelf but growing pains come with your new abilities.
With new awareness of the world and everything that happens you can lose your innocence and become jaded or you can finally be able to do some good in the world.
You get more respect now that your no longer a child. People listen to you more often and you aren't expected to be seen and not heard. Everything about growing up has it's good and bad sides; the key to enjoying it is to look on the bright side.