成长：你在哪一刻意识到自己再不是个孩子了

What moment made you realize you aren't a kid anymore?Doesn’t have to be a specific “coming-of-age” moment in the traditional sense (e. g. a Bar/Bat Mitzvah or Debut), but something that brought you to this realizationEllen Keegan, studied at University of BirminghamWritten Mar 8About a year ago I was home alone with my older brother. I was downstairs in the kitchen (which is below the bathroom) while my brother had a shower.I was warming up some soup when I heard this really really really loud bang from upstairs. At first I thought that maybe my brother had dropped something, but I knew in myself that bang was too loud to be a bottle of soap.I walked up the stairs calling his name, and I could hear this weird kind of noise that made me start to worry. I ran upstairs and opened the bathroom door to my brother on the floor having a seizure. He had also hit his head which was bleeding.I have never, in my life, been as scared as I was at that moment. I ran downstairs in a fit of hysterics and called an ambulance, who arrived promptly and helped my brother.However, this was not the moment that made me realise I was not a kid anymore. I had been crying hysterically and had called my dad begging him in a fit of sobs to come home because I was scared and didn’t know what to do.What made me realise I wasn’t a kid anymore was the second time he had a seizure.I had grown from the first experience. We were on holiday in France when my brother again had another seizure. This time I was so prepared. I remembered the things the doctors had told me and my parents about what to do if my brother had another fit. I was with him the whole time and unlike the first occasion, I managed to maintain my composure. I didn’t cry. I didn’t scream or beg someone else to help my brother. I was the one that stayed with him as he slowly came around, while my parents tried to call an ambulance when the phone operators didn’t speak English.Feeling that responsibility, and the fact that I was the one who stepped up to help my brother, made me realise that I was a grown up.