BY FRANKIE VANSICKLE, STAFF WRITER
As we get older and closer to being more alone, do you still get advice from your parents, or do you get it from your friends? As I get older, I want more and more independence for things that I feel like I would not need advice from my parents. From time to time, I do need guidance on how to do certain things like anything with a car.
When I was thinking about this topic, I asked someone about this, and they said to me that when they were younger, they asked their friends more. When they started to get older, they started asking their parents for more advice than their parents. Their reasoning is that their friends did not know a single thing. After thinking about it now, I agree to a certain extent. Your friends will not know everything when it starts coming to the adult of your life. They have way more knowledge about certain adult aspects like taxes, cars, buying a house, and keeping up with payments on everything you have in your life.
I also feel like you can talk to your friends about this as well. I do not talk to my parents really about that stuff because I have not hit that reality in my life yet. I do not have all those things to worry about until I am done with college. I still heavily rely on my friends for a multitude of advice.
A lot of advice that I need currently in my life is based on my relationships with people and dealing with my workload at school and at my job. I never really ask questions outside of that with my friends.
When I talk to my friends about getting advice, we are usually going through a common part of our lives that we are trying to get through. A lot of my friends need the same advice that I am trying to seek as well. So, then we start asking other people for that same advice from other friends to get the best possible advice that we can get. With these friends, I asked them if they needed more guidance on certain topics, and some of them said it all the time.
I have an assortment of different friends in different age ranges. A lot of my older coworkers need more guidance, even though some of them are 30. Some of my coworkers, who are younger than me, do not need that guidance, and I am still at the point. I feel like it is all in the age when you need that guidance. I will be waiting for my time because it will make me feel like I am still young. I will need that advice soon, though, because I am almost done with college, and my parents will be right there to give me that advice when I am done.
