The age of possibilies . Emerging Adulthood.

I discovered an article which expressed emerging adulthood as the 

"age of possibilities"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How awesome is that. Yet those in emerging adulthood do not always feel this or embrace it as the pressure of money, family and failure overpowers this amazing age of possibilities 


http://nobaproject.com/modules/emerging-adulthood#authors
Emerging adulthood has been proposed as a new life stage between adolescence and young adulthood, lasting roughly from ages 18 to 25.
Five features make emerging adulthood distinctive:

• identity explorations, 
• instability, 
• self-focus, 
• feeling in-between adolescence and adulthood, 
• and a sense of broad possibilities for the future. 

Think for a moment about the lives of your grandparents and great-grandparents when they were in their twenties. How do their lives at that age compare to your life? If they were like most other people of their time, their lives were quite different than yours. What happened to change the twenties so much between their time and our own? And how should we understand the 18–29 age period today?

The theory of emerging adulthood proposes that a new life stage has arisen between adolescence and young adulthood over the past half-century in industrialized countries. Fifty years ago, most young people in these countries had entered stable adult roles in love and work by their late teens or early twenties. Relatively few people pursued education or training beyond secondary school, and, consequently, most young men were full-time workers by the end of their teens. 

It means that young people are dependent on their parents for longer than in the past, and they take longer to become full contributing members of their societies. A substantial proportion of them have trouble sorting through the opportunities available to them and struggle with anxiety and depression, even though most are optimistic. However, there are advantages to having this new life stage as well. By waiting until at least their late twenties to take on the full range of adult responsibilities, emerging adults are able to focus on obtaining enough education and training to prepare themselves for the demands of today’s information- and technology-based economy. Also, it seems likely that if young people make crucial decisions about love and work in their late twenties or early thirties rather than their late teens and early twenties, their judgment will be more mature and they will have a better chance of making choices that will work out well for them in the long run.