Living life as a teen, things are full of angst, over blown, out of proportion; everything holds drama and every day is the worst day of your life. Tests and catty differences loom around every corner and everything is an obstacle....
Or is it?
As I see it, teens have been made into stereotypes. Jocks, emos…Whatever you name it, we’re all seen as pessimistic balls of whine. And yes, while we may enjoy our complaints, whining is far from the only thing that we are capable of. Many teens that I know are mature, optimists with a growing sense of self.
The dark, self-mutilating idea of adolescents that we all know and love (?) is just a tiny period on the essay that is the American teenager. We are all our own stories, topics and prompts; our plot lines intermingle and some characters may have repetitive traits, but don’t write us off.
Remember the old proverb “Children are the future”? It’s true! So how would you rather see the future? Full of intelligent, self assured individuals, or the products of a snubbed and boxed in development?
Mahatma Gandhi said it best when he spoke: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Let us grow! Foster our ideas and give us room to become the change. Generation X does not have to over power America. I believe we can lift it out of the funk of war and depression (both emotional and economic)…If we are only allowed to
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I wouldn't consider everyday to be the worst day. Maybe every other.
I agree that we shouldn't be written off as whole yet. Now there might be a few that could be but not everyone.
My intention with that wording was to create an over blown sense of how we might just feel to the outside world using hyperbole. ><
And yes, there are some individuals that probably have no hope...But must they ruin it for the rest of us?
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~Brooke