By a fellow teen.

Look forward to more changes in the future.

Yo Teenagers

We're Growing Up

It seemed like being a kid too short to reach the top cabinets was just yesterday. The things we were into and the people we were laughing with was something we didn't remember being so long ago. Hearing ourselves count the years from now 'til the little kid days makes us feel old, and with how the world works, among the rush of things, the feeling can be the same with the just turned teenagers. Among our age group, including the fresh-meat; those who are one year off from graduating; and those stuck in the midst of a college-searching scramble, so much happens that goes far beyond words. These collective person-shaping experiences pass us, and we begin to have days where we become nostalgic. But that isn't the only thing we begin to feel, we are animals, so "special feelings" start to grow.

Family

With being an obedient kid for so long and all, it wasn't long before our families started to be shaken from the chessboard. There will be times we no longer find common ground with our parents, and if we were on bad terms to begin with, it may only seem to get worst. There will be times we start to console in our siblings instead of fighting them for the prince's crown or the princess's tiara, and cousins we've had around us we only build a stronger bond with. By now, even if the table holding our chess game has not been flipped, we seem no closer to a checkmate. Against the natural rebellious side the bubbles up within us, few individuals are unaffected.

The King, Our Father

W H I C H   I S   Y O U R   D A D ?

Being frustrated at Dad is natural because he's often more stuck up in his pride than he is about the actual subject. When he's being fun or silly in any way, there are times you don't know whether to take him seriously or laugh, but no matter how lenient they could be, we should all know our father can hold their stance well. At times their tough love could come from thinking about saving face or if something is more efficient to themselves, and they may make life rough for us during this time with all their decision-making to the point we start sneaking out of the house, but be it with our differences they shape us to be better (better than them or even better than ourselves) as they're an obstacle to face before adulthood nonetheless. So count the days, and let their unfairness push us to be more independent.

Fathers, despite everything, often act for the good of their child. They may literally not be thinking at times, which is often a cause for their mistakes, or just living on their instincts, but they mean the best. If strict, they only want to give you a future, if mad they want you to give it a rest, but if ever possibly understanding that's an answer only you could really get out of them.

Oh, The Stories We Could Share...

Now, when we we're smaller, rarely have we not been chilled to the bone when they really do get serious, but in these years, being a teenager, we've taken our chances so much so that if past English ways still thrived we would've died by guillotine several times over, but the glare that my father would give could honestly, in my opinion, do the job just fine.

The Queen, Our Mother

Let's cut to it, she's ruthless, a real warden, but regardless of the type of mother we have, we love her because of her cooking or--if she doesn't cook--her willingness to drive to get us takeout, well, at least during the years before our very first paying job. Mothers devoted to our lives and well-being, have been our foundation long before adolescents. I mean in the 21st Century, they are a god-send as the behind-the-scenes structure and one-man operation of the family. TO BE FURTHER UPDATED AND CHANGED

Crowns & and Tiaras, Our Siblings & Relatives

They support us, they oppose us, they'd really rather fight us than let anyone else fight us, but inevitably you should feel the same. Even if we're on bad terms, or we never really took the time to talk with them, there's just something about a blood bond that keeps us connected no matter what. TO BE FURTHER UPDATED AND CHANGED

Brothers & Sisters by Choice

We're friends by something stronger than blood. Trust.- Wolfgang, Sense 8 (Netflix Original)

TO BE FURTHER UPDATED

My Experiences That You May Have

True Friends

In high school, icebreakers are rare. You're left to make friends on your own, or you're just gonna have to hope you're one of the lucky few people come to make friends with. My closest and most relatable friends have always been accidents. Right place, right time, right club, temporary class, right connections, unexpected events. I mean, but you can say that for just about any first meeting, let's say with an unpredictable series of events landing you in the same class, adjacent seats, but let me ask you this, have you ever forced a friendship? Taking the initiative to greet someone, you talk a bit more, but quickly realize (once you get other friends) is that you guys only talk about what's happening currently, where often any attempts at deviating from the conversation fail, and/or you guys aren't even remotely on the same wavelength. True friends are most definitely the opposite of this. They don't have to be relatable people, nor do they have to fall in-step with you, but true friends don't have to have a specific behavior in my opinion, sure there's plentitudes of behaviors they SHOULDN'T have which should wean you away from any negative people, but it's all about you in the end. How you feel with them, or how you feel about them is the deciding point.

Mental Health

"How Are You?" "Not Good."

What everyone goes through--I cannot express this enough--EVERYONE has it rough emotionally. Though I really want to say everyone has depression, that's really not true. However, everyone experiences their share of low points, and I can't exactly state the reasons why. Now, since I could just continue this forever with a "you", "you", "you", let's just get into how to cope with it (often from my own experience).

Being Emotionally Unstable

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Anger Issues / Frequent Irritation
• Love Sickness
• Jealousy
• Happiness

Being sad. There are two way to go about this: 1)Laugh your heart out. 2)Cry your heart out. Now, this isn't an actual doctor's prescription home-remedy-type of medication you might've just realized, and it's not. I don't mean it to be either because in reality, everyone has their own "fixer-upper" or motivation (take that however you see fit) or something that lifts them up/makes them feel alive/makes them thrive despite the negatives and if one wants to do something about their demons, they must find their own home-remedy. If at all extreme, that's just gonna be medication or therapy for some people. Though ever period in my life things we're going my way, I, in search of something that would take my mind off of reality, I found new interests.

A combination of fear, stress, and worry at its finest. To be further updated.

Being angry plus a little extra. To be further updated.

Love. There's no more to be said. To be further updated.

Jealous. To be further updated.

Happiness seems harder than it is, but is also easier said than done. To be further updated.

Desire & Curiousity

Let's all be honest here...it's either all about the weed, Fireball, or the lust.

Now, let's be adults about this conversation...or should I say almost adults. To be further updated.