21ST CENTURY: TEENAGERS.

When you google "teenager" in dictionary, it comes up with “a person between the ages of 13 and 19”. Why doesn’t the dictionary tell us about the pains and struggles that comes with the word teenager? The nights we must spend getting home from school to study our asses off so we don’t get in trouble the next day. The fact that we have one year, and one year only to showcase how ‘smart’ we are by a stupid test that judges if we can handle what life has install for us. The fact that during that one year if we make one mistake, and we do terrible in one test that there is a chance that we may not graduate. The fact that teens have relationships, relationships which aren’t accepted in society as true because we’re only ‘teens’ and it’ll never last. The fact that us teens will fall the deepest in love during this time, and we’ll never see our parents love each other like what us teens can love but it just won’t be supported cause we’re only ‘teens’. The fact that we’re surrounded by people whom judge us every single day of our lives; we’re not pretty enough, we’re not smart enough, we’re not kind enough, we’re not generous enough. We’re just never enough for anyone. Society doesn’t know how hard it is to be a teen and get through a single day. They don’t know the statistics that everyday 17 people will take their own lives due to bullying. Because for a teen it’s much easier to leave this world than to fight, to fight for people to stop judging, to fight for people to accept love, to fight for people to realize that not everyone’s perfect. Media only shows one side of teenagers. So what, we get drunk, we take alcohol, we smoke, we slit our wrists. But this is how we learn, we’re teens. And when our parents were teens they would’ve done just the same. But there’s reasons behind this anger. There’s reasons behind every girl that doesn’t eat for days so she can loose weight. There’s reasons behind every boy that gets drunk every night. There’s reasons behind the number of suicides everyday being a large number. I think the dictionary should change its definition of what a teenager is to ‘a person between the ages of 13 and 19 that has to battle through the most intolerable hardships in their lives and must always be seen with a smile just so society won’t judge them.’ Because being a teen is so hard, and for everyday for every battle that we get through we deserve society’s acceptance and love but welcome to the 21st century; it’s way too much to ask for isn’t it?