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May 02, 2006
Teens and their brains
To all those who speculate, to all those who formulate and guess, here’s what really happens between the ages of thirteen and twenty, from somebody who knows!The brain is bombarded with extreme severity by two unstoppable/unchangeable forces. I’ll explain. The two forces are Idiocy and Genius.
There are examples to favor this reasoning. We’ve all heard of young people who’ve done amazing things, for God, for Country, for betterment of self, whatever. Young people are often the most successful inventors. I’ve heard of young people graduating early and going an Ivy League school. However, also in the equation are the following examples. Suicide is the most common in the teenage years. Oftentimes life-changing habits are formed during those years as well. Examples would include drinking, drugs, smoking, sex, and other destructive patterns.
The Genius factor
I really believe it is possible to tap into the Genius stimuli, and create something out of one’s self that the world will never understand, and probably couldn’t if it tried. You see, the Genius factor involves service and devotion to God on high. Most teenagers do not have a clue what this really means. When a teenager does this ultimate service thing, everyone in contact with them is witnessing something amazing.
The Idiocy factor
To often, especially in today’s society; teenagers succumb to the Idiocy factor. This is very damaging. At that age, it seems, kids wind up thinking that the old way of doing things, (The way they were brought up, their parents way of doing things.) is to botched for them to follow. So; they end up turning to influences like their friends, who, in desperation, lead them to do whatever seems right at the moment, often ruining many lives in the process. Take xanga for example. There are countless usernames on their like r0llingst0n3s_31. (God only knows if that is a user on xanga.) But it’s really sad that a young person has to have a username that involves a band name, or a movie. Why? Because they’re clueless about who they really are. What they really are is just the next band, or movie. Really sad.
Wrong decisions during this time are so damaging, in fact, that it ruins impressions of teenagers everywhere, regardless of what they are or what they want they want to be. Hence all the remarks by adults such as this one, “raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree”. Which, I’m quick to remind my readers, is simply done factoring in the proper usage and application of duck tape. They end up viewing all teenagers the same, and not giving any teenagers a chance.
The gist: If you’re an adult, give teens a chance. If you’re a teenager, tap into the Genius factor, not the Idiocy factor.
Posted by Addison on May 2, 2006 07:51 PM
