Personal Narrative My Virtual Parenting Experience

My Virtual Parenting Experience Life is always a surprise and things usually happen unexpectedly. Life is a mystery and it’s funny how when we are in our childhood years we want to be teenagers and when we are teenagers we can’t wait for that day that we turn 18 and actually become an â€Å"adult† and then a couple of years we go crazy waiting for our big 21. As a young child or a teenager we imagine our adult life to be like in the movies, where it is easy to find a job, money comes and go and everything works out perfect for the main character. During those years we are just being naà ¯ve and its funny and it hurts when we actually get pass 21 and we realize that life is nothing like in the movies and most of our life plans are still just plans and we haven’t accomplish them at the time we wanted. 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