Isnt it the most intense period of your life?Don’t you feel every word, every smart, every happiness with a vigor and with a conviction you will never again feel in your lives?
Its both the most challanging and beautiful time of our lives.
We emerge into our teens knowing everything, somewhere we are told that nothing we have ever taken for granted can ever be believed, trusts are broken in one way or the other. There are no fairies, no Princes, no Knights, no Men on the Moon - and we gather these betrayals in our badly-dressed hammocks, in the pockets of the worst jeans we will ever own and we realise that the world was never what it had seen. The magic is gone.
After the heartbreak of the magic, there is no other. No other hurt can errode our understanding as much as this. So we lean to science. We forget Hans-Christain and his tales, we forget fables and we create a world based on loss.
It sometimes takes untill our late sixties to earn it all back again. In the form of substitute tales. This is why I say that our old age is as beautiful as our teens. We have little of the innocence of the very young. Yet our old hold a new found sense of naievity, of pretty stories. Their own yarns, spun from the fabric of every individual they have ever met. And you aren’t old for very long either. Things are always changing. One moment you are here - the next you are gone. We are just story collectors really. Our stories can be those of hurt, or happiness - or bittersweet love earnt and lost. But Stories are what make us. Our power is in our words. In our understanding of how we want our own worlds to me.
You can be happiest or the saddest person in the universes. All it takes is a glass half full. A glass poured away. A glass to help the plants grow faster. So many impermanent structures, so many artifices and so many interpretations to trump them all!
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Isnt it the most intense period of your life?Don't you feel every word, every smart, every happiness with a vigor and with a conviction you will never again feel in your lives?
*Hated it with every bit. I'm glad I never have to relive it. *
Its both the most challanging and beautiful time of our lives. Challenging? Yes.. beautiful errr NO.
We emerge into our teens knowing everything, somewhere we are told that nothing we have ever taken for granted can ever be believed, trusts are broken in one way or the other. There are no fairies, no Princes, no Knights, no Men on the Moon - and we gather these betrayals in our badly-dressed hammocks, in the pockets of the worst jeans we will ever own and we realise that the world was never what it had seen. The magic is gone.
**There never was magic to begin with :p
Adolescent years could be difficult as you try to find your place in society. However, those aren't even half as bad as what follows after. Teenagers are usually at middle or high school, so their lives quite often revolve around fitting in and trying to make it through the basic school years.
I feel it's the years after that are the most difficult. This is where you have to smarten up, focus on school, perhaps get a job that could help you in the future, and many of us start to worry about how we'd end up after the next 4-5 years. If we'd have a half decent job upon graduation, if we'd be able to pay off student loans, and for desis early marriages and dealing with parents.
Therefore, I don't think adolescent years are the most intense period of one's life. :)
i like how u say..we’re either very happy..or very sad. teenagers DO live on extremes. i guess i’ll have to wait till i grow up more, to give you a deeper opinion on this..but i’m gonna carry on this way. it makes life more fun. its dull to watch grownups who find a limit for everything. to de extreeeeeemE we shall live!
well my almost 5 years of my teenage was spent so fast that i never imagined it would go that fast... and part of the reason why is because of my mom health problem.... she had the most intensive health condition when i was in my teens... (from 13-18)... she finally had a heart transplantation surgery and after almost 5 years of long period i saw my mom in better condition once again , Mash'allah. During those years of my life.. i couldnt do what my friends used to..... and i kinda get left alone...but o well...
i've heard people had lotsa great memorable teenage years....but i never had ...anyway i believe Allah did this for some good reason. I'm glad my mom is back to how she was before 5 years ago... :)
