No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.
I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.
At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.
You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.
I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
No opposing quotes found.