Question

PART 1: (From the Textbook): Before doing this assignment, Review Pages 390-393 about Risk Taking Behaviors in Emerging Adulthood.

THINK ABOUT THIS QUESTION (You do not have to answer this question, but reflect on it):

• How might risk taking by emerging adults be both destructive and beneficial?
  • Depending on the activity, risk-taking can lead to new areas of growth and opportunity or can cause physical, emotional, or financial harm. Destructive risk-taking may include having sex without a condom, driving without a seat belt, carrying a loaded gun, or experimenting with drugs. Beneficial risk-taking may include enrolling in college, befriending strangers, trying new foods, traveling abroad, moving to a new place, getting married, having a baby, starting a business, undertaking an artistic endeavor, or enlisting in the Peace Corps.

PART 2: (Reflection of your life)

In a ONE Paragraph Essay, REFLECT back on your life to identify ONE of the risky behaviors that you have engaged in as an emerging adult. Be specific in your answers. Your paragraph should have a beginning, middle, and end. Things to consider to help guide your essay: Describe the behavior/choice/decision etc. How were they “risky”? Were they beneficial to you? Or was it destructive? How “scared” were you when you were doing this/these behavior(s)? How much thought did you put into your decision to engage in the behaviors?

For example, some risky behaviors that you might have done might have included the decision to move out on your own for the first time, or determining who your roommate was (if you had one). Maybe it was getting married, maybe it was trying a drug for the first time as an adult, or owning a gun. There are many, many different activities that could be considered risky. Try to come up with your own.

Answer 1

If you don't t have the calculated outcome or proper ultimatum for a particular kind of behavior, it can be deemed as risky. There will be a 50-50% change that it will be beneficial to you,or risky for you.

One such behavior will be - "Starting to maintain distance from People as you grow old"

To begin with, as you enter adulthood, mostly greater adulthood, not teenager life, you start seeing through some people for the truth they are and for the faces they have. Once realizing that all these won't matter in the long run for your life, you have a tendency to give up talking to them specifically. This will result in you trying to distance yourself from them without any proper explanation. Basically this was a step taken by your sheer judgement call on the other people.

Once you realize this whole thing and melodramatic sequence of events that unfold upon trying to achieve the behavior, you start to feel content to some extent. This is the comfort you get when you start loving yourself and not relying on others to shower you with their so called love. Self love, once attained, can be quite a full hearts content. Nevertheless, it's a great risk to use this distancing behavior as it can lead to solemnness and will make you an 'A Class Introvert'.

This is something which should not be recommended as talking to friends is is some way a reliable and dependable choice.