When we were young, we were told not to do things by our parents. They were usually right. The desperate shouts of "don't touch that" or "wait for me to help you" were a constant (usually needed)  reminder to our little minds to be careful about what we were doing.
   We were learning how things worked. Absorbing the ins and outs, and  do's  and don'ts   of our busy young lives. We had a guide. most of us had multiple ones, in the form of adults that cared,( and still do care )about us.We lived in clear, Open Sans ,  black-n-white prints. With the occasional faded cartoon snoopy mixed in.  

   One thing that I see in our generation, is confusion. We are older now, and it has been hinted at us a thousand times, that maybe we are suddenly supposed to be our own guide; make our own,what seems like  uber-uninformed decisions.  Adults still care;  they give us advice, and all the information we need, but we still feel unprepared, and indecisive about life as a whole.
   There is no black-n-white anymore. No clear statements, and no bold fonts. Its all hues of purple, and yellow ; Blue, green, auburn, and orange. Its like taking off a pair of glasses, only seeing blurred lines. Now it's almost impossible to read the fine print.  We are beautiful, but confusing, and for some of us, we  never know how distinguish the warm to the cool; right to the wrong.

     Why? I honestly don't know.  We live in a crazy world. We are all intelligent. Everyone is individually talented and worthwhile.  Historically speaking we are  "the most educated and informed generation in society up to this point in time". However, I see people pretending to be dumb. Pretending that they have no potential. Thinking that they aren't worthwhile. It baffles me.
 
     What makes our generation so much more different than the rest? I don't think we are. We see the past as a time without problems.Yes, maybe social issues were less common seeing as there wasn't a constant platform and worldwide access to all sides of a story, but personal and emotional issues have always been around.  Like Stephen Chbosky wrote in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower -"Old pictures always seem so rugged, and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are."  We see old society, as happy and young, because that's how its usually portrayed.We see activities and style, rather than people and emotion.

     To round this up.  We are all trying to figure things out. We get fed up with not knowing who we are and what we are doing with our lives. Sometimes it feels like life is rushing by, and we aren't doing anything. We are desperate to get out. To do things, before time catches up. However, we are too young to do a plethora of  things alone still. We have more freedom, but not enough to take on the world alone quite yet. Maybe that's why teenagers drive continuously,in circles, with no destination. It's an unspoken metaphor for their colorful,  messed up,"kinda-but-not-really independent", and still learning, psyche.


            -Thoughts From a Teenage girl