Welcome to Life"Dear Mom, can you hear me whining? (Green Day)" When something was difficult what did you do, especially when you were a child? You whimpered. That was how you got people to pay attention to you. You hoped that this way they could make your life better. Complaining to your mother will make everything better. This is the logic that many young children are taught. Life is different when you reach different stages and it gets harder every time you reach a new challenge. The stages begin with feeling comfortable in your environment, well protected by your family. As you get older, you begin to distance yourself from the people and area you were once close to. You start following your own path. This path takes you to a new place that you may not feel comfortable with. The song "Welcome to Paradise" by the punk-rock band Green Day explains the difficulty of moving away from home and how eventually life will get better and you will find that you are no longer so dependent on your family. The song "Welcome to Paradise" begins just three weeks after the boy leaves his home. He is writing a letter telling his mother how horrible it is to be away from home. He feels alone; this is a scary feeling. He addresses the audience about a feeling that many young people have experienced recently. I remember when I started college, whether I wanted to admit it or not, I was scared to move to a new place three hours away from my hot room. for the first time, I had to do laundry, taking care of myself and keeping my area clean and livable. These were new and challenging tasks. Sometimes, even though there are forty-two thousand people here, it feels very alone, as if I were the only one going through this. Everyone experiences some sort of uneasy feeling when they have to move to a new place and start a new phase of their life. From personal experience, a college senior explains how he felt the first day he moved to college: “I definitely felt like I was in a weird place limbo, a kind of place on the edge of reality... It wasn't a very comfortable feeling at all".