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You get excited all of a sudden, you get pissed off immediately, and you find even a small stone on the road to be beautiful. You don't seem to understand anything and your parents and relatives link it to teenage at the end.

Yes, your room is messy. Of course, your right to privacy is more important than your life. Take a break dear Looney teens and read through this article you would be able to relate to it probably every inch of it would be relatable.

You ask for freedom and liberty in every walk of your life but your parents take you wrong all the time. They just think of freedom as the license to come home late or go out according to your wishes and fancies. Well, that's not the freedom you ask for. You just ask for your article 21 i.e. your freedom of speech and your freedom of choice.

You will not be allowed to wear the attire of your choice or eat a dish of your choice. You will not be allowed to speak your heart out, everything is mistaken to be angry but it's mere frustration and not anger. At times you tend to compromise on everything and you end up compromising even on the big decisions...right from the smallest thing like apparel to very big decisions like studying for a degree that you do not like or getting into a college that you do not like or even ending up with a depressed life throughout your life.

Substance abuse

This is the time when you fall prey to vices like alcoholism and drug abuse. No matter what, you should not take this extreme step for you will not be able to hold your horses and get wasted if you get addicted at a very young age i.e. the young adult stage. It's totally fine to talk to your friend or your elder brother or sister who will relieve you of your tension and everything that you are undergoing.

Peer pressure

'No pressure...no diamonds...

Yes! You heard it right. Just as how the saying goes, 'if you want to shine like the sun first burn like the sun'.

Do not be taken in by your friends' talks when they persuade you to try something new just for sheer pleasure. Just have a prior idea about the ill effects it's going to have on your health. Better safe than sorry! So, just take a cuppa every time you feel like getting into such things.

As we all know, habits can't be stopped or got rid of. They can only be transformed. So even if you get addicted, you can channel it in a different manner by either grabbing a cup of coffee or taking a leisurely walk. A shot of caffeine gives you that adrenaline rush and is the best way to wash your hands off any addiction.

Parental pressure

Do not compromise. I repeat, DO NOT compromise when your parents ask you to for you are the one who's gonna suffer the most. Nobody cares about a dying man! People do not give a bugger about your life or your loss, they just keep bragging about your life. However, once you die, they forget everything...so just shut out the noise and do what you want to do.

Clearly explain it your parents a well-jotted plan and convince them that you want it very badly and that's your life's dream. There's one strategy if all this doesn't work out. Satyagraha! Just go on a peaceful protest to get what you want...'You are good to me I am good to you' policy is no crime. Trust me! You are fighting for your right which is not wrong.

Why is teenage important?

As it was rightly quoted by Mahatma Gandhi in his 'Young India', "today's youth is the salt of the nation". Their minds are like clay and they ought to be molded in the right manner. They can't be dealt with using violence.

This is the time when you undergo intense changes and you might find it difficult to keep your mind under your thumb. Once you've nailed this art, you can do anything and everything. Nevertheless, holding your horses is all the more difficult but when you do something against your will, then that's hard work. Let me put it like this...studying when you are not in the mood is hard work. Correct?

Why are all moms witches and all dads demons?

Well, it's completely normal to feel this way for that's how we feel when we can't convince them. And even if they do not seem to understand us most of the time...just relax and give it back when your time comes. You could always remind them of this incident where you were deprived of your freedom and take the chance to shy away from their questions or be indifferent to their decisions.

Time heals everything it takes care of the positive vengeance too.

Be good and only the good happens to you. When you want something very badly, the universe comes together to help you with some ease through it. It happens for sure...

No matter how much technology has improved, we can't market technologies that capture dopamine, hijack attention, and tether people to a screen, and then wonder why they are lonely. We can't vote for politicians who stall upward mobility just because we have the power to decide democracy on our index finger and then wonder why teens are not motivated. Society asks teens and parents to improve; but can society take on the tough responsibility of making decisions with teens' well-being in mind?

Society starts giving suggestions to youngsters as if they've won the whole world. At the end of the day, they just want the teens to study, get a job, and get married. That is the only thing they expect of us but it's high time that we step out of that age-old procedure of life and get out of the social stigma to live our dreams.

The good news is that iGens/cellphone generation is less entitled, narcissistic, and confident than earlier generations, and they are ready to work hard. They are concerned about social justice.

All's well that ends well! On a concluding note, I'd like to state that society should just try hard to look after their own lives in lieu of living the teens' lives because they have lived their teenage well enough and let the gen-Z do the same. 

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