teenager (n): 1. a person between 13 and 19 years old. 2. of, being, or relating to people in their teens.
or, in other words, the most misunderstood people in the human race.
we, as teenagers, have to meet such high expectations and act like adults while being treated like children. we are the generation who ‘cause’ the most damage and are considered disrespectful in today’s society.
the thing is, none of the adults want to admit that they played a hand in our making. they don’t want to be the ones at fault; so they blame social media, our music, our style.
what they don’t understand is that we are unique; we are the only ones with our feet in both worlds. a part of us is child like; we still love water gun fights, video games and disney movies, but the other part of us is responsible, and witty, and clever, but no one else ever wants to see that.
so here we are, at the age where we are expected to know what college we want to go to and what job we want to have for the rest of our life when we don’t even know who we are. and then we get punished when we try to find ourselves and ridiculed when we decide to do something that isn’t practical.
we are told to be ourselves, but only in the way society sees as acceptable.
they can’t see that we can actually do a lot of good, but because all they expect to see in us is the bad, that is all they’ll ever see. no teenager will ever try to make a difference if they are only scorned or ignored.
and why is that? why are we ignored? we try so hard to reach out and express ourselves and our side, only to be shot down. if it’s a teenager’s word against an adult’s in any situation, the adult always wins because who believes teenagers anymore? we only cause trouble to get attention, it isn’t possible for us to be the victim.
adults always talk about how everyone should be treated equally, but we, as a species, are so quick to judge and base everyone in that age or race, as the same.
if this is the example adults set for us, it’s no wonder we’re so messed up and want nothing more than to leave, to get away from everything. all we really want is to be free to make our own choices without fearing judgment and, above all, to be ourselves.
is that really too much to ask?
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