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19...A Very Difficult Age To Be

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      What was it like the day you turned 19? I feel as people get older they forget the emotions that came with each milestone year of their lives and for that reason, I choose to document those milestone years. I want to be a parent, an adult who will understand the youth and provide them comfort and solace that everything they are going through is normal, and provide them with support through that process instead of being dismissive.         I am currently 19 and it's the weirdest age by far I have ever experienced. I'm talking weirder than even the awkward puberty phase of 13, and weirder than the "I want to fit in" phase of 16. 19 is like when people go between the borders of two countries or towns and put their feet on either side so that they can be in two places at once. That's 19..except one country is adolescence and the other is adulthood.       That weird transition phase is really annoying. You are given a lot of responsibility that you have to face o