A decision for young adults: living with parents or starting an independent life? The majority of people live with their parents during their childhood and adolescence. When they reach adulthood, a decision must be made: Should I stay living with my parents or should I start to live an independent life? In my opinion, it is better to start your indepent life as soon as possible for a couple of reasons. Firstly, when you live by yourself, you will face a lot of issues that might you never thought about. As an example, when I started to live on my own, I realized that I must be so much well-organized in relation of doing groceries, buying food and paying the bills. It seems simple, but when you have to do it alone, you have to organize yourself to not be surprise when it's missing basic things, such as toilet paper or some snack to eat during the evening. Maybe you could come home and be surprised because you forgot to pay the bill and now you don't have hot water or internet to use after a long day of work. Secondly, as soon as you decide for an independent life, you will start buying important material things (or at least you will start thinking about it), such as a house or/and a car, things that you will have for your entire life or for a lot of years ahead. It is essencial, because when you live with your parents, probably you will not think or plan about this kind of thing. Finally, when you live on your own, almost everything will be a challenge - and it is excellent! Because you will grow in different aspects of your personal and professional life. You will learn how to deal with life as an adult. In the beginning, with small things as I said about the toilet paper, but soon you will laught about such small problems. You will learn to see life in different aspects and build your own way. It will be an everyday lesson about maturity and adulthood.