Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.
Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.
Being a teenager is hard.
I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.
Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.
As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.