One of my biggest fears about becoming an adult is being trapped, stuck in a routine, doing the same boring thing every day until I eventually die. Living in the suburbs I see this everywhere. People fall in love, buy a house, have some kids and work their whole life until it's eventually over. I don’t want to wake up every morning, work my ass off, come home and do it all again the next day. Not to mention you have to add in all of the stress of paying bills and taking care of a family. I’ll see the same scenery every day, see the same people, do the same things. I feel like I'll just be put in a box and I won’t really be living. As a young adult now, things are still interesting. I hang out with my friends, don’t have to worry about a job, go to college where my classes and schedules change regularly. I get to meet new people and see new things all of the time. This isn’t true however for my parents. I see them get up everyday at the same time, go to work all day, come home and complain about work and then go to sleep early because of how exhausted they are. They don’t even do fun things anymore because it seems like the routine has put so much strain on their lives that they have become zombies. We went to the beach the other day and all they did was sit. We once would all play some type of game together or go ziplining or ride the water slides. Instead they act like they are already too old for fun… too stressed to really live. Maybe this has a little to do with the American lifestyle. You grow up and then get a job. You work your whole life from 9am to 5pm until you are like 60 and then you retire. If you make good money you can go on vacations occasionally throughout your life of working. If you don’t make such good money (some middle class and lower class families) you continue to work with no breaks because you have to make ends meet. You may even work longer hours and do harder jobs. I have never been on vacation. My parents do not make enough money to travel or to other such things. My parents get paid, they pay the bills and they struggle to balance buying food and paying for other expenses like college or needing new clothes, school supplies etc. They are the type of adults that are truly trapped in this society. They know nothing of the outside world and they have so much stress they probably nearly hate their life. I don’t want to be trapped like that. I want to travel and meet new people. I want my curiosity to grow not diminish. I want to continue to learn new things and explore what life could be, through various cultures. I want to be free to choose what I do with my life and not get stuck in a routine. I want to always be on the move and continue to fuel my soul with adventure. I just haven’t figured out how to do that yet…