The future, teenagers, respect and ramblings...

Hello to you!

So this is probably going to be a little bit of a rambly post, but I want to share my thoughts here on my blog so I feel this is worth writing.

I am going into year 11 this year and this means I need to start seriously thinking about what I want to do at college, or what jobs I may want to do when I am older. There will be a LOT of pressure on me this year if I want to do the college courses I am thinking about, so let's hope I don't have a mental breakdown!

Let's say the average person has 80 years on earth. This mean I have already used up 3/16ths of my life already, and I need to make something of my life with the 13/16ths I have left! Everyone wants to make a difference and do something with their lives, and this is why our younger years are so important. If we dropped out of school at a young age, it would be a lot harder to get our lives back on track without the qualifications for a good job!

They says that you should always do a job that makes you happy and money isn't everything, but if you are working at a badly paid job life can be harder. In reality, you need your job for money so you can live your life - what you don't want to end up doing is working at a job you hate for money so you have enough to survive and carry on doing that job that you hate until you retire. No one wants to live like this, and so I want to be able to do a job that I enjoy as well as earning enough for a good life outside my job!

Changing topics slightly - I read a quote recently that said "Teenager: treated like kids, expected to act like adults." This made me think a lot because it is very true. Many teenagers are still treated like kids even though we will soon be deciding what we want to do with our adult lives! This frustrates me a lot. Recently I went to a festival where you stayed in "circles" - you were with a group of people who you ate dinner with and everyone helped around the circle, except me and a few others felt that the teenagers and slightly younger people were being treated unfairly and weren't being given much respect. I had a great conversation with one of the 11 year olds there, and she was so mature and intelligent for her age even though the adults were treating her like a 5 year old who didn't know anything. We decided that at dinner we would speak to the adults about how we felt we were being treated, and some of them were quite patronising. Although we are younger than them, we are still human and we have feelings and opinions too. When teenagers find adults who will listen to what we have to say, we appreciate them a lot because as teenagers we often feel like no one is willing to listen to what we think. We had a good discussion at this dinner about respect and I thought we would actually be listened to for once but unfortunately this was not the case. Much later on in the evening when I came back to my circle to get a drink, I overheard some of the adults laughing about how we said that respect goes both ways and how we feel that everyone needed to be listened to, no matter what the age. Needless to say, I left the circle and went back to the others feeling very angry about this. I thought they were going to take us seriously but apparently some adults are more close-minded than I thought!

I know it sounds like I am just nagging on, but I feel that a lot of adults forget that we are under a lot of pressure from school and society and we just want to have a voice in our world too. Just because we are younger, it doesn't mean we are stupid.

I have decided that every now and then I am going to write a blog post about my views on current events going on and things like that, as I feel it is important for adults to realise that our lives don't just revolve around internet and messing around. This will still mostly be a beauty/fashion/lifestlye blog, but I want to talk about other issues as well sometimes. Do any of you feel like this? Or did you feel like this as a teenager? Let me know in the comments because I know I can't be the only one.

xo