stay strong, valiant soldiers!

sorry about the incoherence. written very late at night :)

via chloe-e

We're at the end of Year 12 now (well, most of us) and its the time which I've heard called 'VCE depression', where the stress of it all gets to us. To be perfectly honest, I don't believe that's happened yet, although there are many things that COULD have led to it. I've seen some succumb, and others stay strong. Physically, we're exhausted from study. Mentally, we're tired out. And emotionally...well...some have it better than others.

Teenagers live on the brink of adulthood and childhood. Some of us are more adult than others, maybe with their maturity or mental process. Some of us are still children, holding on to the innocence of youth. But none of us can always deal with the problems we face. We're not necessarily experienced enough to use our insight as an 'adult' but we can't use our childhood experiences either. And so, most of us flounder along with the help of our friends, and we get by.

But, and this is probably the point of the post, many adults decide that teenagers aren't...smart? or capable enough to know what they want for themselves at all. They say 'oh those teenagers. they're so annoying' and yet they don't take the time to understand why. Some of us are even smarter than adults! We can have intelligent conversations with adults as well. maybe to them we are the usurping younger generation that is going to take over, and they don't want that. Maybe they still see us as young children. But we aren't. We're sort of adults, sort of children.

Teenagers.