A winding road to adulthood

The world has surely changed since the 1960’s. The baby boomers straight path to adulthood, via the five milestones, has become far more winding in today’s society. As for myself, I have been jumping back and forth and in my mid 30’s I still haven’t reached all of the milestones. I have many times wished for fewer options and a straighter way, like that 24 year old from Virginia. That would have made my and many other people’s lives a lot easier, I think. As long as you are financially independent you can prolong your youth and jump back and forth between these milestone steps. But it can become a problem when a whole generation becomes dependent on their parents and the society. Political and economic factors are currently preventing lots of young people to get into the working life, even after graduating from College, and therefor forcing them into dependency. There is a great risk in letting a whole generation not growing up in time both for the individuals and the society. If that continues it will be a great loss and it will cost us more than money to repair.