Is a teenagers life hard?

Liechtenstein
March 31, 2013 11:28pm CST
During my secondary/high school days, all I could think was sleeping, play PC games, movies, books, and studies. No relationship problem whatsoever. Maybe it's because I'm a loner? I have friends and I talk to people. Maybe I'm different seeing I'm not from America. I assume that majority of people posting typography messages about their life on an art site are American teens. I don't know, I could be generalizing. But the thing is, is a teenagers life that hard? They kept posting messages about not fitting in the crowd/clique, complaining about relationship/romance problems/family problems and other stuff. Do they have that much peer pressure? I don't really experience that much peer pressure so that's why I can't sympathize? Also I never tried to look for a boyfriend or even want one so that's why I have no romance problems?
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@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
It is most likely that you are very well aware of only the things that you should really be concerned about. And also, you must have a very loving environment in your home. Teenagers who often would have issues while growing up are from broken families and from parents who are so busy with their work.
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@quieley (316)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
You're right. I came from a broken family. I have not seen my father, and I didn't grow with my mother. It's really hard growing without someone guiding me. And I think it's the biggest factor why I became a loner.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
You should get out and make friends. Being alone all the time will not be of any help to you especially when you need to be associating yourself with people. Your being introvert might be mistaken as a snob.
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• Liechtenstein
1 Apr 13
Odd.. I am from a broken family as well. My mum always work. Only night time and weekends I see her. But I felt nothing? Maybe because I'm not quite alone anyway.
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• India
1 Apr 13
One thing I want to make you clear that every person is different from the other, different in nature, different in attitude, different in thinking too. The majority of people are posting typography messages as they face something new in teenage, I don't say you had never faced anything new, but more people are more sensitive to these new things coming in their life and they find it difficult to cope with these. As I have said their are different kinds of people in the world, they are always thinking and their thinking is always growing. they also have different imaginations and they are also growing ever. Some people think their imagination just imagination and let these imagination go and their are also some who think their imaginary world real and indulge in that. In teenage, a boy or a girl has a lot of to ponder over their imagination and they have to create their own world instead of a world created by their parents. They go in the world, sit in the society, desirous of making their life better and better, they make new relations and much more they have to face. This may be a cause for their pressure. For you, you don't take pressure for these, the reasons may be listed as such, first you may have a very simple, not complex, imaginary world for your own; secondly, you may not be desirous of these frivolous activities and you want something more important for your life; thirdly and the most significant is that, you are well groomed, might be before your age, and this happened with me too. Some persons sometimes, like you and I, become more more matured before the so called age for maturity. That's all I see, and I am completely agreed with you that their is only stupidity behaving more sensitively to the changing course of their life......
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
I think life today is harder and that could be one reason why you have wrote this topic. Everything is in crisis and this hard life being experienced all over the globe. It's really sad though that some teenagers of today don't get the chance to enjoy more of their younger days to this reason. Some youths work and earned a living at an early age.
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@nyssa102 (748)
• United States
3 Apr 13
I think what makes a teens life hard is the fact that their hormones are in a rage and they might be at different states of mental and emotional development. I think it's always going to be that way. It's the age of most confusion. It's when the search for ourselves really beings. That is scary at any age.
@mawee79 (403)
• Italy
1 Apr 13
It probably is.. We always been teen and we know how dfficult those years were.. Everything seemed impossible and difficult to face.
• Australia
1 Apr 13
Things changed I guess. It is hard to fit in. If you dont fit in you are a no body. Now if your just a nobody thats fine you know because friends and people come and go but by being a nobody this can affect you personally hence affect your marks and therefore have a ripple effect. Also now there are SO many options in life which actually make life harder. I am a teenager and am at University. I was lucky to have always fitted in and had good grades but now having to choose what to do is a crazy challenge. We don't learn at school essential life skills such as how to make decisions, Follow passion, Passion vs Money etc. I guess its us who we can blame we want only the best and we want it now. I guess its a generational thing. We want the best without having to work hard for it. We are spoilt in the first world nations. We are shocked when we dont get pocket money anymore or get kicked out of home yet compare ourselfs with kids in Palestine who get their homes bulldozed or kids in africa having to kill a lion to proof their manhood and then you realise life isnt hard its us who makes it hard.
@cudamani (996)
• India
1 Apr 13
Teenagers life is hard in the sense that it is more challenging. Temptations are too many these days. The teenager has to guard all the time against visual pollution. He can be an easy victim to certain distractions around him. Therefore a teenager has to be very careful and strive hard to control his mind.
@quieley (316)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
I think it is. I experienced that also. Peer pressure,the feeling that I don't belong in a group, not being popular, arguing with friends, being depressed, and a lot more.I was a loner too. And never have any good memories. All I can remember is the pain during my teenage life.
@jiiiiin (586)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
My teenage life is not that hard. I am happy that I choose the right people to hang with so I don't experience any peer pressure. I don't seek love life right now I think it will just make things complicated but I am not closing doors. My problem in my teenage life is just the mathematics subject. It makes my life miserable.
1 Apr 13
Economic reality and polluted environment are largely responsible to rob off the real charming of teenagers.Peer pressure or bullying action or oppression in any form from any vested groups are common practice now-a-days. I am not talking about any particular country. This is happening everywhere around the glob. Some are lucky enough to escape this harsh reality and enjoy their protective life.
@danix1982 (593)
• Philippines
1 Apr 13
when i was a teenager my life is boring, i was only home and school student, i have few friends but not always going out with them because my parents are strict, they want me to concentrate on my studies before, they want me to choose friends that they will be like. And now i am a mother of 2, i understand what the role of being a mother and telling to myself that my parents are right in giving guidance and support to me because i finished my studies and have a good job now so that in future i can tell to my kids that i one time i became a good daughter.