#10

Write about one or several difficulties in growing-up and about being a teenager in general. What are some of the paradoxes, the pathos of being a teenager, and/or the difficult lessons you may have had to learn--or may still be learning.

Being a teenager, you're in limbo between childhood and adulthood. You feel like you need to act more mature and responsible, yet there is still that urge inside of you to wrap a blanket around your neck and jump off of the roof with your friends. You want to succeed in highschool, you feel like you need to do extremely, over-the-top, excellent with your school work. You want to do well, but you also want to be able to go out with your friends and have a social life, but you also feel like you need to spend time with your family, etc. There are so many things as teenagers we feel we need to do. Also, we, as teenagers, still are unsure of how to think of our parents. Being suspended between childhood and adulthood, we are also suspended between believing that our parents are these supreme beings that could never ever be wrong, and believing that they are human beings just like the rest of the world, and that they can make mistakes. Some of us have already learned that our parents are just regular people, but others of us, much like myself, still have a hard time believing that our parents can and will make mistakes and it's not that big of a deal.