When I realized it was time to start building my path to adulthood. I asked myself; How should I do it? And how will my actions from today affect my future? Jeffrey Arnett, who was the first person to introduce the term “emerging adulthood,” said that “they [teens] feel much more independent and mature than when they were teenagers.” (16-17) I agree with the author because, in my personal experience after turning 18 I felt different. It was a feeling of superiority among younger teenagers, but at the same time I felt that I needed to be more responsible for my future actions and decisions. I wasn't the high school kid anymore. Speaking in terms of adulthood, these are two important aspects that are also considered requirements for becoming an adult: responsibility and independence. To properly start my path to adulthood, I created my own definition of adulthood, which states that: once you become a person totally independent of your parents, once you realize that only you are responsible of your life and the possible lives of others and once you can create and support a family on your own, then you can consider yourself mature, not only physically but physiologically and financially. By my definition of adulthood, so far, I think I'm not giving up lunch, in fact, I'm building a stepping stone to succeed in my transition to