Me Myself and I

Malak Korek

Me, Myself, and I

Life as we know it has always prohibited people from unlocking its bedazzling mystery of how it started and how it will end. People will always doubt where they were before conception, and what place will shelter them after they pass away. And though this concept will remain to puzzle people for a long time, they’ve been able to discover the stages of life that lie between birth and death. So every person’s life consists of several distinct stages that create the complete existence of a human being. No one can go through the journey of life without coming across its three main stages. Although each person’s life starts and ends in its unique and special way, all people pass through the same destined path of life which consists of three main stages, childhood, teenage, and adulthood.

The first and earliest stage of life is childhood, which comes directly after birth, and is usually considered the age of innocence. Some people may believe that this stage is the best part of a person’s life, while others may consider it to be the worst, based on the varied circumstances they had to overcome through their childhood. Childhood represents the time that people take to grow up and learn the meaning of life, while depending on their parents’ experience and knowledge for support and decent upbringing. This stage of life is considered the most fragile out of the three other stages, because everything learned and received by the children will determine the shape and ingredients of the consecutive stage that follows it. So, childhood is probably the base of a person’s life, which builds his/her personality and gives him/her unique characteristics that are expected to evolve in the next stage.

The next stage of a person’s life is the teenage, which follows the stage of childhood, and is known for the person’s instability and dissatisfaction while going through it. Of...