Yes. I am an emerging adult.I am at the 18 to 25 age bracket, a stage proposed as between adolescence and adulthood. Emerging adulthood has characteristics that distinguish it from other stages of life. These characteristics include; identity explorations, self-focus, instability, a sense of broad future possibilities, and feeling in-between adolescence and adulthood. Emerging adults often like to explore different possibilities in work and love. Therefore, their lives are often unstable. An example of this is when emerging adults move from one residence to another to explore new possibilities and experiences.
Emerging adulthood is a self-focused age. Most emerging adults in the United States move out of their parents’ houses at the age of roughly 18 or 19. However, most of them do not marry or have a child until at least their late twenties. They focus on themselves during that period and prepare for adult life. Another distinctive feature is an age of feeling of not being an adolescent and not fully an adult. Most emerging adults in this period have the subjective feeling of being in a transitional period, and adulthood is near.Lastly, emerging adulthood is the age of possibilities.
Many emerging adults hope that their futures remain possible, and the direction that one’s life takes determines his/her future. The emerging adulthood stage tends to be a stage of high hopes and expectations. That is because many dreams of emerging adults have been severely tested in the fire of real life. I have experienced what my classmates wrote in one of his posts. He states that he lived in more than ten residences in one year. He aimed to look fora better residence that provides new experiences and great surroundings, a feature of an emerging adult. Secondly, I agree with my classmate’s response that emerging adulthood is one tough stage of one’s life. Shestates that one can easily lose focus in life. That is because of the broad possibilities that emerging adults explore at that stage of life.