I have lived on this planet for 19 years. I try to understand, listen, learn, tolerate, absorb, observe, accept and find a reason for mostly everything that happens on this planet. I understand we all come from different places which makes us see the world differently. I listen to everyone because everyone has something to say. I learn from my mistakes and from those around me. I am tolerant because not everyone thinks like me. I absorb the moments that I don’t want to forget. I observe what is happening around me to plan every step I take. I accept that I am different from my peers and they are different from me. I believe that everything on this planet happens for a reason.
I am starting to become scared of the world I live in. Has it always been perfect? No. Will it ever be? Never. I have been a legal adult for a year and year and two months. As an adult people will tell you the world is a scary place. Life is not suppose to be easy. You have to be tough to survive in this world. I know this, I believe this, I’ve experienced this, I fought against the reality of this, I’ve ignored this, and I understand this. With all of this implanted into my now “adult brain” I can’t help feel like I am a child not processing the way the world is.
Being an adult for the past year, I have learned that people will always point fingers. Everyone wants the answer they want to hear. Everyone wants everyone else to think like them. Everyone wants to be the first person to know something. These things don’t matter if you’re a Type A or a Type B personality. This is what you see in the adult world. This is what you learn in the adult world. This is what you want to achieve in the adult world.
With the events happening in the past month, there have been a lot of adults that have not been doing a good job of trying to understand, listen, learn, tolerate, absorb, observe or accept. There are still adults who don’t see past their own needs. There are adults who don’t understand the real problems we’re having. There are adults who refuse to listen. There are adults who can’t take a moment to learn from others because they feel like as an adult they can stop learning. You should never stop learning. There are adults who don’t accept other adults because they live their life differently. There are adults who should not be making decisions because they forgot what being an adult means. This is why the world has become so terrifying to me.
As an adult, you respect those around you, no matter what you think of them. As an adult, you take responsibility for your actions. As an adult, if you have power, then that does not mean your opinion is the only one that matters. If you are an adult, then you have to listen to both sides of every story, not just the side that relates to you more. As an adult, you are creating an influence for a younger generation, be the leader you wanted when you were a kid. As an adult, please understand how to control yourself, not others. As an adult, please remember the rest of the world will never be the same, remember that change can be progressive. As an adult, learn how to voice your opinion in an appropriate manner, do not offend someone for your own enjoyment of torment. As an adult, one should never stop believing, learning, accepting, thinking or changing.
