We walk through this life living mostly for ourselves, not even seeing those around us. The majority of people will claim they don't, but they are lying. It's just our human nature to think about what we want and how to get it. It all starts out when we're crying babies, waiting for our mothers to come care for us in every way possible. Which is hardly our faults. That is one of the few times in our life that we are actually full of purity and sweetness. Then, we morph into kids. Who fought the war of being the favorite in the family between siblings, and what new toy we have to get for our birthday to make friends during the upcoming school year. We still have our purity in this stage, but as of sweetness it is slowly dyeing down for the most of us. We may have acted sweet as a child, but we knew in our minds what we wanted, and to get those things, we knew just how to act in front of our parents to receive those things; but nothing could prepare us for what came next.

The teenage years. The best and worst times of our lives. The time where we decided whether to stay pure and savor whatever bit of sweetness we had left or to cross over to the dark side, and jump into a bucket of pain, heartache, and the most fun you will ever have. You couldn't just jump from "the good kid" to "the bad kid". You were either on one side or the other, and once you chose which side you were on there was no turning back. You may have been good at hiding it, for a while that is, but in the long run your true person always came through. Even if it wasn't who you were on the inside.

In this stage of life, you experienced your first love, your first heartbreak, and your first taste of temptation. The temptation of sex, alcohol, and drugs. You learned what to do in awkward positions and what not to do. Usually, your taught both lessons the hard way. By being put to the test in an awkward position. You spent most of your days staring at a schoolteacher wondering what the heck he was talking about, and begging your parents to buy you some new gadget so you can stay in your room, alone for an ample amount of time venting about your life on some new social network.

At last, we enter into adulthood. The time in our lives that we think something great is going to happen for us, and I suppose for some of that does happen. We believe becoming adult accures after you 18th birthday. When you decide what your future path is going to be; whether your going to go to college or join the workforce. Maybe, you'll go into the millitary and be some war hero. We see ourselves becoming this huge success in whatever we do, that it'll just come naturally to us. When in reality, it doesn't. When we figure out that it's not the easiest time in our life we want to stop working towards our success goal and just go the mediocre way. Why do we do that to ourselves. Is our generation that selfish and lazy, that we can't even believe in a dream if it consists of hardwork?

Adulthood doesn't come with a cheat sheet or an age. It comes with the resposibility and maturity we allow ourselves to have throughout all the stages of our lives. Going through life going by the status quo isn't enough anymore. You'll end up miserable if all you have to look back on in life is doing the same person everyone expected you to be. Stop being that greedy girl and that annoying boy because when your faced with a real problem in life you will fall. Stop thinking about only yourselves and don't just look at the people around you, see them. Start with your school, move to your community, then check out your world. The help it needs from you. Not everyone has the ability to put warm food on their tables everynight so lend a hand. Start a charity or just join one. The smallest chang you make in your life can make the biggest difference in someone elses. Make that change. Take the vow to be a better you for todays tomorrow.