Human life L5: Youthhood (19 to 33)
 
  The age 18 (and 21 in some others) in many cultures signifies the legally recognized age of adults. Along with reaching this age comes the granting of certain privileges and responsibilities such as car driving, alcohol consumption as examples.  
  For many, it represents the turning point in terms of earning adult wages for a days work. In others, it means little or nothing ( particularly in cultures forcing people to work from young ages with little or no education).  
  In many social studies and common language, the word "youth" is used to denote people between the chronological ages of 12 to possibly 21.  However in the context of UCA and the consideration of the life journey as being a journey of awareness, the word extends in period beyond the artificial boundary of 18 or even 21, to the period of 33.  
  In many social studies and common language, the word "youth" is used to denote people between the chronological ages of 12 to possibly 21.  However in the context of UCA and the consideration of the life journey as being a journey of awareness, the word extends in period beyond the artificial boundary of 18 or even 21, to the period of 33.  
  Youthhood is the defining period in which the lessons of the first major section of life begin to be refined and put into practice and where the young mind seeks to extend and journey.  
18.16.1 The importance of youthhood  
  Youthhood is where the skills and traits of adolescence are put into practice. It is our period of apprentiship. Where we try and often fail as we seek to put knowledge learned during extended periods of study and schooling into practice. It is where we live away from home, where relationships and the world takes on more and more responsibilities  
     
     
 
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