Advice on Teenagers

Thank goodness the youth of America is so responsible, my curious reader. Just look at them–their mind is open, but they can differentiate what is right and wrong extremely well, processing an unethical offer or deal and knowing when to say no. There is a smart brain on their shoulders.

Well, except for the times that they drink or do drugs, taking substances that may hurt them later in life, impair their ability to think, ruin friendships, families, the children themselves, giving them events that they will regret for years, even decades, down the road. Very few will see positive effects associated with their mistakes, things that could have been learned so much more easily.

But we see them in our schools so often, getting along, incredibly tight-knit, sensible, rational–you are so pleased that these people will take control of your country some day. Any problem they see, it will be tackled by their collective voice of reason.

Unless you consider, of course, the ever-present childish behavior, the spreading of rumors, the gossip, the stupid high school politics that only exist because the children are hungry for power that simply does not exist. But they must have it, they need it, they feel so terrible about themselves that they must look at others and say, “They suck compared to me!” no matter how sensational the tiny little rumor that slithered into their ear is.

Thank goodness, my curious reader, that our peers are so sensible at least some of the time. We see them in school every day, we know that they can give all of the right answers, make the great jokes, impress the teachers, but just how much of our youth do you see outside of class? My curious reader, if there’s one incredible thing about all of this, it’s that the little children around you have managed to dodge all of the immediate consequences society is supposed to enforce for so long.

Teenagers…such good people.

~ by Michael on January 25, 2008.