As a teenager, this is the beginning of your life. What you do today determines your whole future. There are no mom or dad to decide on your choices anymore. You have to make up your own mind on which school to go to and what kind of future you choose. You are literally on your own when it comes to making better choices.
The adults in your life may be there to guide you, but the critical life decisions are on your shoulders. Should you decide to consume too much alcohol, smoke, have unprotected sex, etc., you will have to face the consequences alone. Whatever choices one makes, they will reap the rewards. Smoking does cause cancer, and unprotected sex does lead to pregnancy or worse, sexually transmitted diseases.
While standing your ground is difficult when all your peers start experimenting with bad substances, it has great rewards. The teenage stage is an exciting yet dangerous time and learning curve. There are so many new things to get exposed to, so much to gain yet so much to lose. Some choose to listen to the advice they get from parents and other wise adults, while some sadly choose drugs, gangsterism, unprotected sex, etc. Basically, one chooses the direction they want their lives to take. Making good choices in relationships, career, health, and overall wellness will set the pace for your entire life. You have the power to make your life what you want it to be. If you have made major mistakes already, don’t despair. We all make mistakes and start all over. It’s never too late to make a fresh start. For more wisdom and advice, keep reading. Being a teenager is one of the toughest and most memorable things that one goes through in life.
A teenager goes through many happy times and many depressing times. Stress, depression, and peer pressure are some negative things that a teenager goes through in life. Friends and dating are joyful times that teenagers face in their adolescent years in today’s time. Tension, stress, and depression affect everyone at one time or another in their life. A death in the family, arguing with and losing a friend, being bullied or teased, peer pressure to wear certain types of clothing or hairstyles, try tobacco, alcohol or drugs, are all factors that can create stress and may cause uncertainty and depression.
There are many causes of stress, such as lack of affection and tension from parents, loneliness, and low self-esteem. Low self-esteem can be a major problem for teens because of the importance placed on looks and achievement in our society today. According to Patricia Shapiro in A Parents’ Guide to Childhood and Adolescent Depression (1994), three to six million”
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Thomas Malthus grew up in London until his mid-teenage years before moving elsewhere. With knowledge in these particular areas, he wrote essays and books about the current situation. (788 3)
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…concerned about teenage pregnancy, rape, and abortion. But instead, these kids decide to write about wanting to legalize marijuana. In these essays, they are never… (1562 6)
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Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote both poems and short stories, as well as essays. He had a great intelligence that he used to his advantage. By his early teenage years, Dunbar had already begun to develop his skills as a writer. (1472 6)
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Through his essays, Baldwin developed a reputation for being a shrewd commentator on …. The novel is a largely autobiographical account of his teenage years. (2618 10)
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In this essay, instead of reading and researching in many books on what experts say, it is important for many girls during their teenage years to feel accepted by… (695 3).
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Projects and essays, especially, were always put off until the last minute. Being torn down is such a major disadvantage in life because your teenage years are crucial. (826 3)
Teenagers are generally full of vitality and energy. This advantage allows them to conquer the world literally, experience new insights, gain wisdom, and acquire knowledge. Teenagers can also challenge themselves to practice extreme physical sports like mountain climbing. Often free from financial burdens, nothing pulls them back from pursuing academic excellence and various desires.
However, many teenagers misinterpret the meanings of life. They do not have individuality due to the lack of knowledge and wisdom to proceed with logical thinking. Some teenagers do not have their parents to guide them along this course of life. Therefore, these teenagers begin to assume that the teenage years are the worst years of their lives.
Some teenagers also feel apart from their peers because of their looks, grades, or a sense of injustice regarding their achievements. They may be tempted to see how far they can push the status quo.
The statistics in Straits Times Interactive show that most of the angst-filled teenagers come from stable homes where their parents are professionals. They lack love from their busy parents and urgently want to seek the attention of their parents.
Therefore, many teenagers began to worship metal bands such as Atreyu, Cradle of Filth, and Bleeding Through and resort to foolish acts like self-mutilation. Many teenagers start to believe that slitting their wrists and writing poems glorifying their suicide attempts can show their support for emo bands and be as cool as these bands. This wrong perception is due to the satanic appearance and… [continues] Being a teenager is hard, harder than some can imagine, harder than some can remember.
It’s those years you’ll never forget, though you sometimes wish you could wipe them away. They seem to last forever, but when you look back, they went by so fast. Being a teenager is falling in love too fast and too hard, talking for hours on the phone to your best friends, being talked about and talking about others. It’s feeling guilty when you’re innocent, standing out, and fitting in. It’s having a million questions that will never be answered. Being a teenager isn’t something you can really describe unless you’re living it at the time. It’s dealing with life when it crashes on you and trying your hardest to live through it.
Everyone has their tough times. Everyone goes through something, but being a teenager, that’s when you feel everything at once. When you’re in love, you’re really in love. When you hate someone, you despise them. When you’re lonely, you’re miserable. Being a teenager is something you always have to go through, and it’s the best and worst years of your life. Being a teenager isn’t anything – it’s everything. It isn’t a big deal – it’s a HUGE deal. And while you’re being a teenager, you ought to live it up because this is the one chance, the one time you’ll be young, free, and careless, as teenagers usually are.
