When I realized it was time to start building my path to adulthood. I asked myself; how am I supposed to do this? And how will my actions today affect my future? Jeffrey Arnett, who was the first person to introduce the term "emerging adulthood", stated that "they [teenagers] feel much more independent and more mature than when they were teenagers." (16-17) I agree with the author because in my personal experience after I turned 18, I felt different. It was a feeling of superiority among young adolescents, but at the same time, I felt that I needed to be more responsible for my future actions and decisions. I was no longer a high school student. When it comes to adulthood, this involves two important aspects that are also considered requirements for becoming an adult: responsibility and autonomy. To properly begin my path to adulthood, I created my own definition of adulthood, which states that: once you become a person completely independent of your parents, once you realize that you alone are responsible for your own life and the eventual lives of others and once you can create and maintain a family on your own, you can then consider yourself mature, not only physically but physiologically and financially. Based on my definition of adulthood, so far I think I'm not missing lunch, on the contrary, I'm building a launching pad for my successful transition into