THE TRUTH ABOUT GROWING UP!

When i was in school, i read an ex-student's article about teenage, and i'd thought she must have gone mad! but now that i've once gone through that metamorphosis, i've realized, she was right it's not easy being a teenager!people who say it is, are those who are above twenty-five, either married, or otherwise, atleast settled in life!here are some of the excerpts from that article
people often tend to say,"after teenage you have to start thinking bout a carrer, settled life, marriage, teenage is the age, age for what!"
You are growing up spiritually and physically.And all of a sudden a variety of temptations from various avenues beckon you, knocking at your vulnerable door.You become uncertain.Unable to grasp the vagaries of life, you tend to pick up the trivialities___it's side growth____the habits, especially the offensive ones.You grow your ahir long, play loud music, learn to whistle, become aware of the opposite sex, try to attract them, can't, try to ignore them, can't.You hurt people without intension.you start to probe, to question.At times you even beg to differ.That is when you are cast as a rebel, a blasphemer, whne all the while you merely search for an answer, albiet in a crude manner.With your sights out of focus, and your ideals shattered, life becomes a foggy highway to nowhere.
Nine times out of ten, you retreat to your roots, and turn back to the trampled "right tracks".And for once even the adults are correct when they say, 'i told you it was a phase he/she was going through'
The tenage years are also marred heavily by education,a lthough once a person crosses thirty, his nostalgia is ripe with scholl memories.He hovers about teh time he bunked scholl, thrashed by a bully(or thrashing someelse beinga bully), and proudly dispalys a knee scar while playing for teh scholl team.
Perhaps, the memory of tenor of the skin peeling cane of teh principal is fresher thana silver strand of hair, and the pimples are more bearable than the Alzheimer's disease
Education is a part of mid-teenage turmoil, a quagmire in the mould of the mid-life crisis.There is the realization that dad is no money minter, and as popularly acclaimed, the world is not you oyster, rather a wolf which you must keep away from your door.
Incidentally throughout thsi larva stage, there is no one to be your guiding light.Your parenst can only clothe you, feed you and satisfy your material cravings.That is as far as they can go.Beyond that they cannot fine tume themselves to your frequensy.(possibly because they ahve gone through all thsi and they somehow think, that if they stop you right on time, you'll grow up without having to face the decision of moulding yourself into some1 you want to appear as in the future life, or maybe they can direct you into becoming someone, whcih according to thm is perfct, but doesn't suits you at all).SOo you take refuge with friends.A company ehere you are not judged, only understood.this perhaps explains the attraction of many towards their selectd pack of friends, even to the exclusion of their own family memebers.
A circle of like-minded, adolescent brains can cook up a nasty dish or two.There, ofcourse you have the added feature of being brought up in the twenty-first century.You are the "NOW" generation, bred on junk food, and voilence.Your brain is hyperactive, triggered off by an imagiantion that has fed on videogames, computers, music channels, mobiles and other hi-tech gadgets.You have witnessed the most publicized event fo the century,the war on terrorism,live via CNN and BBC.
In short you have seen everything.This is the twenty-first century where carreer advancement is the sole driving force and ulterior motive the onlyreason for a samaritan act.
For teenagers of the developing countries, who witness all the world luxuries but barely amnage to acquire even the basic necessities, life is tougher.Entertainment centres are few and mostly obsolete and there are few parks and agrdens, and group activities, no organised local teams or committees.With no outlet for fertile imagination, the devil takes holdand works overtime.The kids who hang out on every block like linen on a cloth can hardly be blamed for wasting their time.
Having said all thsi, teenage has its momnets.A string of first times that make these six years of life unerasable as if engraved with indelible ink.First crush, first love, first degree.....first shave.It is the initiation period, getting acquainted with a series of events you will see more of in the later years to come.
The fact that contrary to the popular belief life is not a movie, much less a beach, and more importantly, it has no sequel.There are personal disclosures too, like what is in fashion, and contact lenses look better on you than glasses.
my personal opinion to the above, is that whatever be the case, everyone has to go through this
stage, and should always rememeber the variety fo feelings and phases one had to go through,s o that when the time comes to direct a new generation through thsi phase, you are compatible to do so, and to be that frined who you teenage kid should seek for refuge instead of an outsider and become the sure prey of the devil!