Teenage life

By: Christian James Eson

Being a teenager is a mess, I must say. Maybe it's because we're currently in the transition between childhood and adulthood. We even have to sleep 10 hours every night, which is usually not done by most of us. We teenagers, well, most of us, like to stay up until late night and wake up when it's almost noontime or be up until morning, and that causes a problem -- pimples.

So pimples make us conscious of our face, and even more because some of us have crushes already. They can lower our self - confidence. Some teenagers won't even show their face or hide it from everyone, like me, I myself am experiencing this problem. I hide my face from people whenever possible  or avoid being lit because of it. It also makes me insecure when someone talks to me about it.


Anway, let's get back to the teenager life thing. There are people that we could meet who could be a bad influence to us & cause our live to be messed up. Like those teenagers who use illegal drugs. We could experience problems along our way, but drugs won't help you out in any way. They even prompt other teenagers to use them just to be in their clique, and that's not good. I'm not telling y'all to stay away from them and just let them be, we can help them change for the better.

Another thing that encounter in our teenage years is this "love" stuff. A lot of us think it's love but it isn't, it's actually infatuation or simply attraction. Taking it seriously could distract us from even more important things, like our studies. We, of course want to have a decent job in the future, right? Although finishing studies won't guarantee you success, we still have study because we're still young and we have a lot to learn and we got a long way to go. Look, our parents are working hard just for us to be able to study, but some of us just don't care, and I think it's cruel. But me, I won't let it go to waste, they're spending a lot of money. I would show my appreciation to their deeds and study hard. Crushes are only a normal thing to us teenagers, but taking it seriously to the point that you'll slash your wrists with a cutter or crying all the time because of someone you find good - looking, is obviously stupid and I find it a bit hilarious. But teenage life isn't all about avoiding you life to be messed up. In fact, teenage years are the happiest part of a person's life.  We're still young and we don't get to work yet and we still don't have responsibilities. We also seldom encounter pressure. In teenage years we get to have cliques, cliques whom we share interests with. That's why the students are divided in groups based on their activities. There are groups called the nerds, the jocks, the gangsters, and the gamers to name a few. But teenage life isn't all about avoiding you life to be messed up. In fact, teenage years are the happiest part of a person's life.  We're still young and we don't get to work yet and we still don't have responsibilities. We also seldom encounter pressure. In teenage years we get to have cliques, cliques whom we share interests with. That's why the students are divided in groups based on their activities. There are groups called the nerds, the jocks, the gangsters, and the gamers to name a few.

High school is where all these things happen. It is probably because teenagers spend most of their time at school. I remembered what the priest told us in his homily during the baccalaureate mass when we were in the 6th grade and about to graduate. He said, "High school isn't all about studying alone, it also involves socializing with people, too."


That's what makes the teenage years and of course, the high school life happy - socializing. Although sometimes, others need a bit of alone time, they can't be alone forever. Even the emo guys flock together.