Why? is the question we all teenagers are always asking ourselves, being a teenager some people would say is one of the challenges in life or others may say is an irrelevant time you are trying to figure out yourself. As a teenager myself I can say that most of our time we spend it thinking on how to fit in or how to get friends which when we look at it we may say and I quote “it’s ridiculous to think that way”, well if it is why? why? do we take tons of our precious time to put in the effort to create different faces for ourselves?
Face one; the mask we put on to our peers the image you have set to be liked by such called “friends” the mask we put on in social media mostly built upon what we think people would like to see from us to make ourselves a little more likable and considered “cool” to be around, i can guarantee that its no surprise any teenager thinks at least ten times through an Instagram post , a text , an outfit , a caption and tons of other more stuff surrounding that thought is what would people think? constantly. Face two; The face we put on to our family our parents and older people which this I think is ridiculous since for a fact I know they were once teenagers as well , we put a mask to them surrounding what we think they want us to be this perfectly put together you women or men, who is looking out for a bright future when in fact we all know in this period of time we are surely most likely to be LOST a word that I interpret to stand for: Lonely, oblivious, stubborn, teens.
Then comes the worst of all three faces the one you put to yourself, it is a human instinct to try to fool yourself on thinking you are fine okay and mostly happy, this face can be the one fooling you more than you think you allow it to… Face three: The face that tells you what you like , maybe its superficial stuff like , going out on parties , or maybe a guy or girl you like, the dark ones like alcohol or drugs which most of the time life throws at us, maybe it is being accepted or so-called “liked” by your peers or maybe it goes a little further and its sports or other activities perhaps reading? but who are we kidding this face is also surrounded by the thought of what you perceive the world tells you is right or in others wrong… but teens don’t make no fool of yourselves think about this for a second deeply What makes ME happy? you’ll probably come up with such things like family, GOD and finally my “friends” think about it again this is because it is what should make me happy right?….
Well the truth is we get so stuck up in this different faces we lose track of what makes us who we are , we lose our essence when we start to change to this different faces and that just leaves you with nothing so today I invite you to think about yourself and no its not selfish but think about you what makes you happy what do you want to achieve and don’t let anyone by any means tell you that is not what you are supposed to aspire for because at the end of the day it is you living your life , you make your decisions it is your time…
