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Passage
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Living on My Own
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 The
first time I decided to leave home was when I was a sophomore
in high school. I was having trouble getting along with my parents.
I had about a hundred dollars in my pocket, and so I thought
about leaving home. It took me only three weeks away from home
when I started to feel homesick.
Living
on my own is a totally different experience for three
main reasons: being more responsible, more decisive
and more creative.
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Living on One's Own
For Chinese students this may mean leaving home to
attend college. Elsewhere, however, this may not provide
enough independence to satisfy student desires for
freedom from parents or other types of control. After
all, colleges and dormitories have many rules and
restrictions, such as limitations on when and where
one can study. Noise and lack of privacy are additional
complaints of dormitory residents everywhere. American
students, in particular, are often eager to move off
campus as soon as they can. This may occur as early
as the sophomore year at most American colleges.
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First
of all, I have  learned
that living on my own requires that I become more responsible.
My parents usually assign
my work and duties which I have to keep up with almost every
day. When I fail to do my assigned work, I only get scolded.
However, now that I am on my own, I get to deal with my duties
without being told to. When I fail to do my duties, I must also
deal with the outcome
on my own.
Another
different experience for me while living on my own is that now
I have become more decisive. I have to be more careful now that
I am on my own because my parents are not here to give me their
advice. I must make my own decisions now that I am on my own.
For example, I must make the best decisions for myself without
hurting anybody's feelings and without my parents' authority.
Therefore,
I became more creative just by living on my own. I could make
my own future plan. I have made rules for myself to follow.
I also designed all the furniture in my room by using carving
tools. I wrote a lot of songs and kept them in my notebook
for any singer out there who might be interested. This to me
is a good experience, because I usually think that being creative
is the nicest thing in the world. However, when I was with my
parents I found it hard for me to be creative simply because
I always followed their ideas.
In
conclusion,
these are the things that usually happen when I am with my parents
and when I am alone. In addition,
I think that it is appropriate
for everyone in this world to love their parents and themselves
before they love anyone else. They should learn how to live
on their own, but at the same time learn how to support their
loving parents. They need to follow every technique that was
given to them by their parents. They can make use of their freedom
of choice to lead to wherever they want.
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