Week 6 Avital Horowitz - Teenager's shoes

Normally, when I write these blog posts, I don't make them super deep and personal because I get worried about being judged or looked at weirdly, but this week I decided that that is exactly what my prompt should be. The mind of teenagers. It's a crazy thing. I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this will be able to relate to this because these are just natural things. Once we start adolescence our senses suddenly get dialed to eleven. We think about everything. Everything. What we did wrong. What we can do better. What they are thinking. Why are they saying that? Our mind goes to the worst possible outcome faster than we can blink an eye. 

This past week, I had a sort of out-of-body experience. If you don't know what that means, let me break it down. So basically, an out-of-body experience is when you kind of have a realization about yourself or the world around you, that you would normally never think of. So back to my out-of-body experience. Last week, I came to a life realization about teenage society. I've been trying to figure this out for years, but last week I finally solved it. Now, this is definitely going to sound super judgemental, but I guarantee, I am not trying to be repugnant to absolutely anyone in particular. 

Teens' actions don't revolve around what we want, they revolve around what we think we need. We do what we do because we think that if we do them, society will like us. We have the desire for society to love us so we can feel like we are "in". What's "in"? Good question. "In" is being included in the "normal," not weird group of teens. As much as we try to shake off that itch of acceptance that we are in such strive to attain, we will always have that sense of need. That need to be seen. That need to be accepted. That need to be wanted. And that's why many teenage boys pick on the teachers and bully their friends. That's why the teenage girls gossip and whisper about what so and so said. The boys want the attention to be on them, so they can feel wanted. The girls want their friends to seek more information from them, so it makes them feel needed. But let's be real here. Do we really need to perform these worthless notions to feel wanted, accepted, or needed? No! We don't! The only correct way to achieve that feeling is by finding those people that don't care. Those people don't care if you are "weird," or cumbersome. Those people that accept you for whoever you want to be. Those people will still be your friend no matter how different you may act. Those people that appreciate you. Those people that love you. So just for a second. Take off those teenage shoes. Look beyond yourself. See the world the way I see it. See what you truly need. Seek the things you wish to achieve.