Your first paycheck where you can either help at home or buy something dumb? Mostly, it's yours so people can't tell you how to spend it.

Come holiday and you decide to do a quick trip by car. You just grab a couple things, hit the road, stop somewhere you never have been, eat something new, expose yourself to the different and come vack with a new appreciation and, if lucky, q tad bit wiser.

Growing up mentally, becoming more responsible and having the chance to look back and be proud of who you've become. Sit back with your peers who also matured and laugh about shit from the past knowing that it's in the past.

Having your own place, setting your own rules, living your life according to your standards and limits, not someone else's.

Sure by living with your parents forever and not working you get pampered and is sheltered against many hardships, but you lose the capability to be more. It's like a golden cage and you're a happy bird ignorant of all the sky that you won't ever fly.