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'The teenage years are the best years of one's life.' Would you agree with this view?

I feel that teenage years are indeed the best years of one’s life. As a teenager, money is usually not an issue for daily life. (This assumption is based on the life of an average teen.) Teenagers do not have to set foot into the real world and competitive society to work and strive for a living! Their only responsibility is to study and score reasonably well results so as to pave a brighter road for their own future. This is considerably simple a task compared to the adults who have to cope with their jobs and family matters. Furthermore, majority of the youths these days do not have to work part-time jobs to earn school fees unlike the olden times. Most of the working teens are actually just trying to earn extra allowance to buy materialistic merchandises!

However to some other ‘emo’ teenagers, life may seem much bleaker and duller, and they might just need a knife by their side at all times to slash off a part of their flesh in an attempt to show the world how miserable they are. Honestly, I do not understand why, but I suppose this is just a phase they go through, and I believe everyone must have undergone the ‘emo’ phase before, just of different extents. But overall, I do stay firm on my stand that life as a teenager is the best because we have our parents to rely on no matter what, and we do not have to take up heavy responsibilities as a youth. Anyway, even if one was ‘emo’ before, do be glad that he or she got over it and learnt something new in their teenage days!
Hence, I still feel that, ‘emo’ or not, life as a teenager is always great because we learn the most , be it academically or simply values of life, and we do eventually understand that taking things in our stride despite the adversities of life will make us a better person in future!

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posted by Phoebe @ 12:54 AM