Sarah Rose Seventeen

This is Seventeen by Sarah Rose explains exactly what you think it would, what it means to be seventeen. It dives into all of the things that seventeen year old have to face. Being stuck in a sort of “limbo” for this entire year. Like being seen as a child but expected to start make adult decisions. Being allowed to drive anywhere but making sure not to break curfew. You are expected to choose what you want to do for the rest of your life but you don’t even know how to live without your mother.But seventeen is also the year when your life is just really beginning. You realize that you still have so many years ahead of you, so many mistakes and memories to make.
“Being Seventeen” by Bei Kuan-tu, explores the spirit every person has when they
It’s your last couple of years to be truly a kid. Once you're 18 you are seen as an adult and you are one legally being seventeen. Each poem describes what it is like to be seventeen. At seventeen a person gains more responsibility but still has a lot of freedoms, they are still young enough to have big dreams and admirations. The adult world has not changed them yet, there is still a sense of innocence that remains within them. They have not become jaded. They still have time to go on adventures, see the world, to live life to the fullest, and to just be a kid before they have to settle down. Both the songs and poems emphasize that kids who treat this age shouldn’t try and hurry to be an adult. Their time will come. They should appreciate the time they have to be a kid, and use this time to learn about the world and themselves.Time flies and if they don’t take advantage of their youth, they may regret in the future. People always wish they could go back to this time of their lives, to be a carefree youth again, so it’s important for 16 and 17 year olds to realize how fortunate they are to still have the rest of their lives to look forward to. They should live in the now instead of racing towards the future because they will never get this time