What are your favorite things to do? Play video games? Watch tv? Or cleaning up after your mom’s famous meatloaf? What we do determines who we are. Are you using your time wisely, or wasting away in front of a television? The point is, teenagers have prime opportunities to do good around them. We ARE the future, and we need to show everyone we are capable of GREAT things.
Most teenagers today think their “teenage” years are the time we they can be lazy, and relax before going out into the real world. I think everyone has that point in their life. I certainly have. Last year as a matter of fact, I spent hours on end on facebook, on the phone, and slacked A LOT on homework, only doing the major assignments. But after reading books about teenagers accomplishing great things, I saw that I have opportunities to do even the smallest things that can impact everyone around me. For example: encouraging people around me to have a good attitude and to work hard in what they do.
Today, I see people around me with amazing potential, and I can’t help but think that they are missing the point of the teenage years. But what is the point of being a teenager? I think it is to learn how to “survive” but also have fun. You can’t help but want to spend time on the computer. But instead of taking on the impossible quiz AGAIN, go take out the trash for your parents. Im sure they would appreciate it.
So I’m asking you, yes you, to take on this challenge with me. Lets teach our generation what it means to be a teenager. Together, lets set expectations that can help us grow to be successful adults. Cause eventually, we will be expected by adults. Why not change that to we are expected by adults today. Lets not waste our life.
Nickelbacks song, If Today was Your Last Day sums up what I’m trying to tell you.
“My best friend gave me the best advice, He said each days a gift and not a given right, Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind. And try to take the path less traveled by that the first step taken is your longest stride.”
Thank-you
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