My Anything Essay

For my anything essay I wanted to write about growing up. I think that it's about time that I grew up because I'm not going to be living with my parents forever. I am going to go through a lot of changes like being able to pay for all my bills, including filling up my car on gas. I'm going to have many, many more bills to pay and rules to follow. I'm going to have a house bill, a car bill, a heating/cooling bill, a grocery bill, gas bill, an electric bill, and everything else in between.

This summer my mom is going to make me get a summer job even if it conflicts with my summer sports schedule. She says that I'm supposed to have a job already. I need to send in my application's myself and I have lots of inside people at many places that I can work at. My mom also said that since I have a car I should be doing all of these things myself and stop depending on her to get my stuff done.

That's another thing, I have a car. I have one and when I first got it I didn't have to pay for anything, especially gas. I did take good care of it though, I did stuff like wash it by hand and not by machine. So, my 16th birthday just passed and I got a ton of money. Now apparently I am supposed to use all that money to pay for everything for my car, including all the gas that I use for it. I had a lot of money from my birthday party so all of it, and I mean all of it, is going to that car. I am going to pay for my gas as long as I have that money and I have to buy a new stereo and speakers. To me, and this is just personal, I think paying for your gas money in this economy is a very adult thing to do. Especially when you're only sixteen.

I also have to learn how to do everything this summer. I'm going to try and get a job, go to all my volleyball camps and basketball camps this summer. That is a lot to do and I don't even want to think about doing all of that. It sounds crazy to me at this point in my life, but I want a lot of extra spending money for me to have and not have to spend on the car. I also want to go to my volleyball camps to improve and plus one is out of state and I want to go to that one. I also want to go to my basketball camps to improve on my game and to go to the camps were having out of town too.

Accomplishing all of this is going to be crazy though because the economy is really bad and I can barely afford anything. My family has a very tight budget right now and that's why my parents are making me pay for my gas and anything else I want to get for my car. I think I am growing up and I also think I'm ready for it because I have had many things happen to me in just this past year alone that haven't happened to most people in their whole lifetime. I am ready to grow up!