Early Teen Pressure
Well, you all the teens out there… must be bored of this kind of stuff and might be thinking, ’’Man! there is a load of pressure! We get it!’’ But, I want to reach out to all the teens out there and think, Why are we facing those pressures? Why do kids our age always think that if we don’t live up to the ‘so-called’ popular kids expectations, we’ll be called losers. And the most important of all is that kids are always talking about what the popular gang is doing, and what the new gossip about the popular kids is. I get so fed up every time a person talks about what the popular kids are talking and doing, and you know why I get so fed up, because I have already listened about that particular topic the 5th time today! Everybody leaves all their work and get so interested when a person is talking about themselves, even if they don’t want to share it with anybody. Maybe that person is not telling you because they are looking for someone who can actually listen to them. Not a group of people who suddenly are so interested in the other person’s life so that they can get some juicy stuff to talk about. I have just changed schools and I have had my ups and downs already. When it was my first day in my new school, I was so damn nervous as most of us are and with a lump in my throat, entered my classroom. I have come in the middle of the school year, so I only have two terms in this school and then I would move to High School. More pressure, great! As I was saying, I entered the class, Everybody started staring at me like I was an Alien or something. It took a lot of time for me too settle and make friends. I had 1 or 2 fights with some people but later realised hat there was no point of fighting. You got make friends. From that day, I started talking more to people and asking about them. I started participating in more classroom activities in different groups every time so that I get to know more people and tell them about myself too. I feel so confident to speak in my class and feel like its been a year already. Anything is actually possible if you believe that it can happen. My whole point is that we as teens can feel low and feel like we are alone. But there are millions of teens there feeling the same problems. And if you think that popular kids have everything perfect, you are wrong. They might be facing the same or different problems as us. So there is actually no point crying that we don’t look good or are not popular. You are perfect just the way you are.