You feel pressure, a strong need to fit in even for just a moment, and even though you
are told by your parents, “no matter what grade you get we will always love you.”
There is still a deep feeling inside that if you don’t do well, you will let your parents
down and you will destroy your life. There is also a fear suppressed and hidden
beneath the surface, that if you do too well, you will be called a “stew” by all of your
peers. So you are caught in a catch twenty-two; and there is no way of avoiding the
stress or worry. The best thing to deal whit the stress and worries is to pass over your fears and don’t care what your peers are saying.
When you are a young person everything revolves around your school live. For those
that you meet in school are those you will stick with for the five to seven years that
you stay there, and some of the friends you meet there may be your friends for life.
You constantly are trying to better yourself in school in order to get the attention of
others. You go to sleepovers, shopping and clubbing all with the people you meet in
school. This puts pressure on you because you feel the need to be perfect and to fit in
with all the rest of your peers.
Bullying is in full flow when you are a young person, it’s not physical in my opinion
it’s mainly verbal, or the people just basically exclude you completely. There are
those who stand in a group of people and seem like they in a crowd or “click” but
what others don’t realize it that they aren’t included in the conversation what so ever.
Music, television, celebrities and school control all of my actions as well as all other
young people. The music that you like and listen to can determine the kind of people
you will end up being friends with. Television influences how we talk, what we wear,
and even affect our opinions about things. Celebrities make us want to make ourselves
better and by better I mean thinner and more fashionable, and school effects what
group we are in as well as the possibility that we may not fit in at all.
So being a young person is anything but easy at times, there are so many different
pressures that surround your life. From restless nights for exams to being able to fit in
with all the “popular people.” Though we do have goodnights out and live for the
night, when morning comes sometimes it wasn’t just quite worth it. Starting jobs and
keeping hormones under control is more difficult now than ever, because of
influences on television. Those who surround us are constantly judging us, and we
feel that we are also being judged by the outside world. Though we know there is
always the one thing we can always rely on; our mobiles and in my case my family.
So do you think now that it’s easy being a teen?
