As soon as it strikes midnight and you transit from seventeen to eighteen, you are liable for your existence. You are no longer a child. Under the law, you are an adult. Everything remains the same, from your fears to your physical appearance, yet you are given responsibility.

One second that decides your life. This is assuming that a calendar could determine one's readiness to take care of their affairs as every other adult. This is an irony in the law.

Is this law right or wrong? What the law says is that it is ideal to put responsibility on a person who is just a year older and make them independent. This challenges how we see the law, but with planning and readiness, it is possible to overcome the heaviness of the weighted transition.

Is the law ideal?

Is it the freedom from financial and social burden that the eighteen-year-olds “adult” are thrown into? While other eighteen-year-old “children” enjoy freedom from all such burdens. In other countries, the law allows the minimum age of eighteen as a minor.

In a personal view, both directions are reasonable. Countries that use a higher age might see that it is better if children are allowed to grow and understand life before they are thrown into it completely. Those said countries also provide opportunities for eighteen-year-olds to participate in certain positions. Above all, they both have their beneficial aspects.

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Do we want it?

This is a subjective question. As soon as you become eighteen years old, everything you do is on you. Commit a crime—prison, insurance, medical records, and the rest are on you.

I believe if one is incapable of handling this privilege, one will mistake it for freedom and fall into a trap. The trap is believing that it could be a means to take advantage of it. Actually, all of these things are not what some people like. The stress of responsibility is weighing them down. In another light, several people anticipate it either for a sense of self-sufficiency.

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What could be done?

Nothing. This is quite anticlimactic. No matter how it is argued, the fixed age is the age.

Some countries' laws might be different. Whatever situation you find yourself in, there is a solution. This solution is no longer with your guardians. The law will not support you if you flop; this is on you. You. If you are not yet eighteen, stick around to. Any form of responsibility or independence you can get involved in, do it. Whether it is a job or a leadership role in school, just do it. This will change your perspective and make you learn that the world is more than the world you have back at home. Also, learn financial responsibility. There is something called investing. You could learn to invest in particular things that are really important to you. That will help you to think in the financial hierarchy. If you can't start immediately, just learn it before your eighteenth birthday. Better still, learn to save or have savings. From your side job, you should have a certain percentage going to an allocated position.

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Conclusion

Being an adult is not a life sentence (literally). If you can plan your life, you will enjoy independence and balance it well. The world will not stop if you flop, and the law will surely judge you.

In this journey, you will learn, enjoy, and feel like screaming. Above all, the transition is a bittersweet experience. The time you look back on your childhood years, you will be able to know that times have changed, and now, you are more responsible and capable of handling life. Congratulations, you young adult.