Week 6: Early to Middle Adulthood LJoiner

Week 6, we were assigned the chapters on our book 9 and 10. They are on early adulthood and middle adulthood. I feel that this stage of life I can relate to the most because I am currently going through early adulthood. In college I was exiting the adolescent stage and beginning the early adulthood and now I am going through life seeing things from a different perspective. In college I swam all four years as a varsity swimmer and I had no problem with my fitness. Now being out of the water for just a few years I have noticed that I need to get back to working out. After reading one of the sections in chapter 9 about binge drinking, I may have done it in college, but now as my body is getting older and my metabolism has slowed down binge drinking is much more difficult to do. I would have to agree on Eriksons theory of intimacy versus isolation, seeing as I have been in a relationship for quite some time, but there are some days or situations that I am still looking for who I want to be and that is the isolation portion. But then on the other side of the coin I want to include my girlfriend and build our relationship and our identity. Which will eventually lead into me marrying my better half. I look forward to the next stages of our life and transitioning into parenthood. With me still being at a young age I look at my everyday actions and how they will better me for my future professionally. I am trying to create a base or foundation that I can build my Life. A career is that start. I support my girlfriend in any thing she does but we are on a plan to get financially stable before we start making big life choices.
Hoping that I will be successful into my middle adulthood stage. I hope to still be healthy and keep my senses as I get older. I have many coworkers that are going to the stage and I see how their lives are and what choices they have made in their past. Building a family is what I would like to do, hoping I can spread some wisdom to those that are younger. Reading on to chapter 10, Erikson's theory on generativity versus stagnation I was interested to read how stay nation can play such a huge role and some ones life. Obviously if you choose one path in Erikson's theories you are more likely to keep going down that same path. So if you hectic one side of the six proceeding psychological crisis is that define human life you're more likely to be in stagnation if you went down the isolation.


-Landon