 Dear students, in this module, we are going to discuss the transitional adulthood from age 18 to 29. Transitional adulthood is a period of exploration and transition as young adults navigate the challenges of entering the workforce, forming relationships and establishing their own sense of identity and purpose. The age of 18 to 29 is considered to be a time to practice what you have learned in your previous life, the norms, behaviors, attitudes, and particularly the life skills you have learned in your profession or in your different relationships. While building your relationships, it also becomes very important that those life skills reach you through the process of socialization and how effective these life skills are when you are exploring those relationships. And in Pakistan, young adulthood is often a time when individuals face significant pressure to establish themselves in their careers and find appropriate spouse for the marriage. Because this time period has a lot of social expectations from you, especially from the family. It is expected from the male that they start their professional career as soon as possible and it is expected from the female that they complete their education as soon as possible and then come into the context of marriage. Transitional adulthood is a time when individuals may experience significant socialization through their work, romantic relationship, and peer group. So, in this time period, as we have new avenues, new opportunities to explore, new relationships are also built up. So the experience of transitional adulthood can vary widely depending on an individual's social background, economic status, and cultural context. In rural areas, children are married as compared to urban areas. So, life experiences vary. Similarly, in different ethnic groups, we see that your different experiences vary according to your own cultural context. It is not necessary that all 18 to 29 years old adults in Pakistan behave the same way or have the same expectations. So, these expectations are changed according to your cultural context. So, transitional adulthood is marked by significant changes in the brain, including increased cognitive abilities and ability to form abstract thoughts and concepts. So, this age is also called a productive age. In this, you have the potentials to learn new skills, to express them, and to construct new ideas related to them. So, this is why it is called one of the most productive ages. In which you are at the beginning of your career or you are about to start your career, in this process, you can have a career in which you can excel later on or in the later parts of your life. Then transitional adulthood is a relatively new concept in the human history as young people in many cultures historically transitioned directly from adolescence to adulthood. So, traditionally, we considered this age bracket as adulthood. We thought that since after 18, the period of adulthood begins and the previous experience of socialization is the practice time. But by the passage of time, as the knowledge increases, we see that even in this period, there is a special transition happening, you are learning new skills, you are also practicing with it, and many things are desocialized and resocialized. So, this becomes a very crucial aspect of your life later on, not only for your personality building, but also for your future career.