9 Things, What Should Every 18 Year-Old-Know?
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9 Things Every Should 18 Year Old Know:
1. You, Will, Lost Your Child Protection From Law
As we know, when your life is hit 18 years old, you are not a kid again! so you are responsible for all of what you do. Should Every 18 Year Old Know, If you are doing a crime is legal to get you into jail without Kid-Sheild again in your life. So make sure you do not do idiot things makes you going to jail in young age.
2. Try not to post your entire life online
People is don't care about what you do, even they are watching your video or like your post, they really not care. Especially you post something outrage like abuse women, bullying, smoking in somewhere not legal. Because some Job or college might see your social media before you accept.
3. Don't Center your life just to attracting a mate
You are not kid!, but you are not adult too, you are in progress, remember. Having a crush is good, dating someone is good, but don't center your life into it. Cause it just makes you confused, do everything according to the portion. Example, if you break up with your date don't be thinking too much, give as you can!. If she is not back, She does not deserve with you.
Be Yourself, Find another (girl/boy), don't waste your time if (she/he) not response your notice (JUST LEAVE !!). Find another again until you get someone, who always care about you, really know you, have same think, and everything will be better.
4. How to say YES or NO
This step must you have, cause you have to get out from something you don't like and make yourself not feel good, waste your time. You have brave to say NO from something that you don't want it, don't feel bad if your friend or someone else is disappointing of your decision. Because those things can help you find some "real" friends. Who understanding you.
5. Use Condom
According to Wikipedia; "The federal law establishes the age of 12 as the minimum age of consent, while the age at which there are no restrictions for consensual sexual activities is 18 (sex with someone 12-18 is not illegal per se, but can still be open to prosecution under certain circumstances)." And according to advocatesforyouth.org; "in the United States, 46 percent of all high school age students, and 62 percent of high school seniors have had sexual intercourse; almost nine million teens have already had sex." that's the reason why you have use condom before sex, except you want to have kid in a teenager.6. Going to college is great. Going into debt to go to college isn't
Did you think when you go to college will make your future surely greate? NO. You don't have to go to college to success, because success depends on how you can use all the opportunity you have. But if you want to go to college is good but don't debt just for go to college.
7. Make sure you learn some basic life skills
Every 18 Year Old Should Know how to Cooking, Cleaning, Saving is very basic to build your own life. Because everyone needs to know that's too survive until he dies. Except he becomes rich and does everything with housekeeper.
8. Knowing You are not born to make everyone happy
Steve Jobs once said, “If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader, sell ice cream”. This point is linked with some point before, don't feel bad if any someone doesn't like you. Because everyone is different, not everyone will like what you do.
9. Making mistakes is good, but don't make the same mistake again
You are 18 years old, Don't feel bad if you making mistake because you try the first time, learn from your mistake, try it again. And you will get a new mistake and you have learned from that until you eat all your mistake. And you ll'be the winner.