Adult Years

The Adult Years: Chapters 1-3

The reality of life is one that is not easy to comprehend or transition through. Our country has always been controlled or predesigned by society to conform to a consensus. In previous generations society (adults) were strict and govern by the constraints of the majority. Since then we have become a freer society that is less predictable and more turbulent. We have to realize the fact that adults nowadays need to learn how to adapt and learn to be resilient and adapt to the ever-changing flow of life. The U.S. has become a majority of adults compared to previous generations that were youth oriented. During the last decade, our population between the age of thirty-five and forty-four has had a marked increase, due to the advances of medicine. The current world in which we live is no longer the same one that our parents knew in their time. Life is an ever-changing container that is in constant flux. The rules that our parents lived by were fixed and thought of as definite. They experience life in a order that was predesigned by their parents and their parents-parents. We are face with a new generation and with that, a new set of realties and problems that must be dealt with. Adults of our generation are constantly “Reinventing Adulthood”. For many of us the adult years are filled with volatile changes and multiple options that give us flexibility to design our lives, as we want without worrying about criticism. Because adults today are living about twenty five to thirty years longer than the previous generation, we must find a purpose in life and plan a future once we have peaked in our fifties and sixties. America has traditionally been a country focused on work but with the recent refocus on the leisure side of life we must take care of our bodies and quality of life into elder hood.

In our newly defined generation, adults anticipate possible career changes throughout their lives. This is a deep contrast to the previous...