Sorry for posting yet another rant, but I’ve been feeling this way for a while now. I truly despise being a kid, under 18 to be more specific. Everyone tries to tell me that it’s “the best time of your life” to be this age since you don’t have any really big responsibilities, but I think those people must have pretty bad lives if they think that way. I guess I should just list off everything I specifically hate:
1. Under constant responsibility of an adult – If you’re not with your parents, then the staff at school,or the parents of a friend, or a therapist is responsible for whatever happens to you. I want to be able to take care of myself. Because of this, you have to always let someone know where you’re going and they have final say on most things. If you drive, you have curfew. You can’t go to any movie by yourself because you’re not old enough (I know you can at 17, but you get the idea). You can’t go wherever you want whenever you want because you just CAN’T. Where’s the fun in that?
2. School – To put it simply, for the most part, I hate school. I’m going into my junior year of HS so I know I’ll be graduating soon, but I’m tired of cliques and fitting in and all of that nonsense. You simply cannot be whoever you want to be, ESPECIALLY in my case since I’m L of the LGBT. And parents are checking grades and then if they see something they don’t like, they’re all, “Why is this grade a C?” or something.
3.Changes – As a teen, you’re constantly changing so half the time you feel as though you’re crazy (at least I do.) One day you’re fine, and the next you hate everything. Everyone who’s older assumes you’re confused about something, especially when it comes to my sexuality. Or, someone who I think will be a good friend is no longer interested the next year.
So in closing, what’s so fun about being in this age??? I need a reason.
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i can relate to this post so much. im 14 and sometimes i think to myself ‘if this is the best time of my life, will it get even worse?’ but now ive realised that what we freak out about (relationships clothes and in some cases depression) wont be as important later in life. this is the last chance we have to worry about things like this because as we get older, we will only get busier and things like that will get further and further away from being the most important things in our lvies. people who tell you that we should enjoy our teenage lives, obviously miss theirs. i dont know what anyone is going to do for the rest of their lives, but according to parent, its not as good as being a teenager.
I’ve not long turned 18 and I would do anything to be a ‘kid’ again, you ask what’s so fun about being a kid? Well honestly, you make think you can’t move because of the way adults treat you, but honestly until you get older you wont understand that right now you couldn’t be any more free. I’m not saying it’s not frustrating being ‘just a kid’ but remember that once you’re an adult, it’s a life sentence of bullshit, enjoy being a teenager while you still can.
Translation: It gets worse? 🙁