Getting Closer

I'm about to turn 18 on Friday and I'm starting to realize all of the responsibilities I'm about to be entrusted with. The age that is to come upon me comes with many 'perks'. I can buy lottery tickets and cigarettes. I can sign my own legal documents. I can legally have sex. I can stay out as long as I want downtown, considering the new rule. All of these new things are going to be my own doing now.

As a responsible, overly matured, soon-to-be adult, I've already decided what to do about these things. I will buy lottery tickets, but no cigarettes. Smoking is a damage to the body that God made especially for me. I don't want to die of lung or cervical cancer. I will sign my own documents, I have to. I will not have sex. I just want to have that special person with me. What's the use of waiting all this time and just throwing it away? Even if I am with the right person at the very moment, I'm going to wait until I get married. It's just how I do. I will stay out at night when I want to. So many teenagers think that turning 18 means that they should do all of these things. They are all wrong. You just can legally do them now. There is no undo button on life. I must admit that there have been times I wished for one, but guess what! It's still not here and it's not going to appear. It's crazy how many young people go straight to the bottom once they take the 'huge step' into adulthood. Yes, you are an adult now. It doesn't mean that you can go out and party and smoke and have sex. That's a one-way road to ruin your life. Don't ruin your life just because you can now that you're old enough.

KNZ