You. I first felt like an adult when I traveled to another country for one semester to study abroad. And that was the first time that I managed to myself to being completely alone. I was with friends, with some friends, but that was the first time that my parents let me be myself in terms of money and living alone and so on. So that was the first time that I can say that I was completely free, let's say, in some way
I moved to another state to go to college, and then I moved again to live in another state that was different from the college state and the home state. But I remember my mother always said, and I will forever give her credit for this, she said, we are all citizens of the world. And so when you started to talk about when you felt like an adult and you talked about traveling abroad for your studies, I immediately felt my mother's words in your post