That's Our Everyday

My life as a teen is tangled as my messy hair my mom has to comb knots out of every day. I’ve got schoolwork, which I’d not care about all given the choice, but which I’ve got to do anyway because my parents and my stupid whiner of a guilty conscience won’t let me slack off.  Then there’s the problem of fitting in and making friends. Did you know that all though people say that the class and caste system has been abolished, it still exists in a very sophisticated form in schools? They ignore this, because they don’t want to be reminded of their own school days, leaving us to be tortured within its walls. If you’re lucky and have really cool looks, money, or have good connections with those at the top, you could be the most popular kid in school, and it won’t matter if you’re the biggest jerk or witch either, because on the popularity brigade, people look at the surface first and your personality later. Otherwise, you’re stuck with the so-called ‘losers’ of the school, and no one even bothers to know your name. You’ll be given a label, like ‘Guy with Ugly Face Who’s also a Big Geek’. Or something shorter, like ‘Weird Freak’. Descriptive, isn’t it? That’s high school.

This is also the time when your body decides that it’s time it freaks you out completely and begins crazy, horrible changes within itself, whether you like it or not. Guys get facial hair, grow disconcertingly tall and develop voices that make them sound like foghorns. Girls face worse problems which we’d rather keep to ourselves. Unfortunately, with mums and teachers and counselors advising us at every corner, how’s that even possible? We teens also find that Mum and Dad seem to have become much stricter about rules and regulations and our future. The same old discussion about all this drives us mad, and we find ourselves spending less time away from home or at the computer. Hence, adults form the stereotype about us- teens are sullen, wrapped in their own life, complain all the time, don’t have enough ‘family bonding time,’ etc.etc.

That’s the summary of my life and the lives of about a million other kids around the world. We are teenagers. We fight a battle everyday without knowing its cause. We do get warnings, disclaimers, notices, etc. about how it’s going to be. But when it actually hits, and it hits us hard, we see that these notices don’t help much. We try to find our identity, or some of us lose ours. But, despite all this, we do see a light at the end of this, long, pitch-black tunnel. No matter how much we say we suffer, we always, ALWAYS end up having fun, anywhere, anytime. We make fun of the silliest, and sometimes the dirtiest things. I guess that’s why everybody says that the teenage years are the best of your life. Because I’m learning that right now.

This is my very first post here! Lol, hope you guys liked it :)