All Grown Up...?

As college students, we deal with what some people classify as "real life problems" in "real life situations". But what does any of that actually mean? It doesn't doesn’t make us adults. There are some people I know who are 18, 19, or 20 that are way more "grown up" than people that are 26 or 27. It's weird to me that the US has defined 18 as a legal adult, because at 18, at least for most people, we are nowhere near ready to be an adult, yet we deal with so much responsibility. I know some people that have to put themselves through school; taking on around $20,000 dollars a year, or people that get pregnant and have to make one of the hardest decisions of their lives. It’s hard to say that these people aren't adults because of what they go through, but I think its how a person chooses to learn from every situation that classifies them as an adult. Surviving adolescence is enough to say that someone is grown up, but the lines blur and there is no point where you can say, "Ok, that was it! I am now an adult!" It’s a feeling you have and it’s proven at different times. It’s vague and unexplainable. It happens to most, but not all. Most of all, it’s completely evident and recognizable in other people. It’s why we have heroes and role models.
The most important thing people know is that no one can get through life on their own- that’s why we have friends. One man put it perfectly years and years ago. His name was John Doone and he said, "No man is an island, entire of itself..." and he couldn’t have been more right. Being and adult is not something we can do on our own. We have people to help us and take care of our souls along the way, because life isn’t easy. All we can do is try to help each other with the short time we have on this earth. So after reading this, connect your island with another and ask yourself "Who can i help today?", because, if you ask me, it’s a pretty grown up thing to do.