You design your own life

Childhood and teenage period of life is mostly you are dependent on your parents. That is the time to build foundation of your life and it counts how good was your parents or guardians in guiding you through this period along with the fact that how interested you were to listen to good advises.

Since the you are at your own, designing your life is like decorating a house and it is like how you want to be. Now you are grown up, you have a job, you are earning money, not much controls of elders on you so what is stopping you to enjoy the life in an socially and legally acceptable style?

You decide if you would like to pick up the habit of smoking or continue with the habit, which might have picked up earlier. You decide whether you want to indulge in drinking or engage in some creative activities. You decide that whether you would run for money and waste 16 hours of a day after it or you would be satisfied with what you need for living as well as reasonable savings. 

Life is only one and stages of life's also comes once only. Probable the best part of life period from the age of 30s till 50s. Some may differ with my opinion, but that is the time you have physical strengths to do your choice and loved activities, which need physical ability. I have seen many in their old age repenting on how they should have spent their early lives, but it is to no avail as the time will never return. 

Wise men says that you do the right thing on right time to be successful man.