When we were kids we all thought we knew everything. We always thought we were right and we always thought we knew as much as we could, that are brains were at full capacity when we were just 12 years old.. Little did we know the world is a constant place to learn and even when you are old and wise, there is still so much to be seen and heard and learned.

Being a Senior in Highschool it’s been a given that I’m continuously learning new things. Constantly proved wrong and  always thinking about things I never imagined thinking. It’s a daily thing to learn for me, as well everyone else. College is the big deal right now. It is a life changing experience. The thought of leaving our comfort zone.. To leave our parents our friends, our everyday life to start a new one. It’s an amazing opportunity that everyone is given but also a very scary one. We learn the reality of life. We learn how to live independently and we start to the learn the ideas of being successful without leaning on our parents for a guide or help. It’s life changing to go from depending on our parents for the last 17 years to being on our own almost completely. The real world teaches us more than anything. It proves me wrong daily by showing me everything I don’t know that I once thought I did.

Teenage years are some of the most important years of anyone's life. It’s the time to make mistakes and learn from them it’s the time to grow as an individual and to find out who you are and what you want to be. It’s a life changing time for everyone. Where you go from a kid to an adult. It’s the time to become an individual and learn to lived on your own. On a day to day basis I start to realize the wisdom my dad has and how much I wish I would have listened to him. We would talk for hours and so much wisdom was coming out of his mouth and I didn't think much of it. Now when i talk to my dad i'll listen and I’ll think of the things we had just talked about and then take it a step further and do something about the problem and mature from the conversation and continuously learn more from the few simple things my dad would say to open my eyes and changed my perspective.

Being 17, were all looking through a magnifying glass. We all think we know everything we need to know but in reality we just know what we’re going to do next. We all know what college next year we all know what we want to be but we all don’t see what we're doing in the moment. We don't take the opportunity to learn from the smaller things in life because we are always so focused on ‘what’s next’ and now what we are going to do or be. We assume that we know everything and yet we are ashamed when we are proven wrong.

We take our parents and our elders for granted on a day to day basis and many of us need to learn to accept the fact the they have lived a majority of their lives and they know more then we could ever and we can learn and live from the things they tell us and be successful in our own ways. Our lives would be easier if it wasn't our first instinct to think we know. Listening and learning from my dad is one of the best things I’ve ever done. And I will continuously listen to my dad with open ears and change my perspective on life.