Today’s youth, our future! Being a teenager is filled with memories, laughter, happiness, joys, and sorrows. Being a teenager is no easy task. In the world we live in today a teenager goes through things you probably never have imagined.
Yes, teenagers now are the most pampered and the ones who believe they have a voice. Being a teenager you have a sense of responsibility, but that doesn't stop you from having fun and being yourself. The teenage years 13-19 years of age are also the years where you discover yourself and grow. Being a teenager is a whole different experience where you go through everything.
You have time to spend with friends and you're growing up and changing so much. It's also the most uncertain time of your life, though. You're finding out who you are during the teenage years, and who you are at 14 is NOT who you will be at 24. You're coming into your own during these years
But let me remind you it's not always entirely joy, happiness, and good. One of the most stressful things you will face is being pressured for your studies. It seems as though marks define who you are. A person is known in the outside world for their marks!
Being a teen isn't as easy as you might think there is constant judging from almost everyone, maybe even your loved ones. There is an image of the perfect person that is set by society and you are expected to live up to it. They are judged for their likes, dislikes, looks, opinions, and everything they do! I always wondered who is a perfect person, in fact, what qualities make you perfect, who defined and decided what, and who is pretty, perfect, beautiful, and who is not?
All of this affects the person's mental health. There is a taboo for mental health that it should not be spoken of and mental health illness doesn't exist. In the past years, the percentage of teenage suicide in India alone is 17.8%, teenage depression rate in the whole world is 20%.
A sense of freedom is there and not there, for your rights and who you are vs who you want to be. But the teens are using their powers to raise awareness and fight for their rights to be human. With change being at the tips of our fingers and social media being the biggest weapon in the current world our future can change.
All that matters here is what you think of yourself. Society does not have the tiniest say in it; it's all you. The teenage years are not entirely good or bad. You will have many marvelous times too.
“No matter how bad life may seem, remember that it's always going to get better even if not now eventually it will.”
"Teenage years fill your life with the most unique colors".
The teenage years are the best and worst times of your life!!