To be young means to be adventurous, willing to learn, and determined. To be old means to be knowledgeable, a teacher, persistent and settled into in a certain way . So to think old and be young means to have so many responsibilities and life errors, events have made a person become settled and set in ways otherwise a person may have never done. To think old and be young means to be still at the age of adolescence but have the mind frame of a very mature adult. A good example are young teen mothers who are forced to grow up early due to the fact the mothers are now burdened with the responsibility of raising a child and being a provider.
             Kelly is a 21-year-old woman. She did not graduate from high school. She had her first child at the age of 15 years old. She continued to go to school for two years. Temptations were all around her from her young, carefree friends with no children to older men who were very established and intrigued by her looks. She drops out of high school her junior year, because raising a child, maintaining a job and going to school is very hard and she has not yet developed a sense of responsibility. Now she is forced to take low paying jobs to provide for her child while still receiving no help from an absent father.
             In the prior situation Kelly is forced to grow up. She has no one to provide for her, she is the sole provider for her child and herself. She lives at home but soon she will have to go out on her own which leads to why she has to think old or have a more mature state of mind to be able to survive day to day for herself and her child.
             18 years old Kelly moves away from her parents she has government aide to help her live but she still has a low paying job and a limited education. Kelly is now on her own and thinking maturely is now more essential than ever. She has to become what some women do not become until they are well into there 20&
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