My thoughts..

What does it mean to be "18"?

These past 5 months I've been handling some adult responsibilities, but not quite getting the respect a young adult begins to get from their parents.

When do your parents start giving you the respect you always hoped for?

I'm not sure & that's really affecting my mood.

I'm a very respectable girl who obeys her parents, but is it time to demand respect? Hm, not sure if I should or if it's too early? I am usually one to just wait it out. I can't stand the thought of my mother being upset with me.

Yikes, what's an 18 year old to do?

The Big 1-8

18. To me it simply meant "I was grown". I thought that after turning 18 life would become so simple & things would come to me easy. How wrong I was. Actually, life got harder & I had way more responsibilities than I had at just 17 years old. However, my 18th birthday was amazing. I headed out to the city with 2 of my bestfriends, my cousin, and my boyfriend. We had dinner at Bubba Gump, a "Forrest Gump" themed restaurant, and let's just say from the picture below, we had a very interesting time.

More importantly, I didn't learn how hard life was until recently, I'd say about a month ago, when my summer job was over & I had a cell phone bill to pay & a metro card to buy & no food in the fridge. I thought it was the end of the world, but it wasn't it was the beginning of my life & it was up to me to decide in which direction my life would go !