Pressure. Whether to fit in or to have our 50-year-plan by thirteen years old, there is an awful lot of the stuff drowning in our hormones. The fear of being a failure is constant; we are encouraged to map our life out ahead of us whilst tentatively teetering around the downward spiral that is the […]
When you watch the family rom-coms about temporary, petty divorces or affairs or people taking up obscure hobbies or getting fired or needing money or taking a vacation, something they are always highlighting is the featured character’s mid-life crisis. But no-one ever tells you about the crisis that starts in year 7 until you complete education. Just this week […]
So today I paid a pound for the privilege of panicking this morning and having that moment where you stare at a whole wardrobe and think “I have nothing to wear!” Oh yeah, and there was more than a a pound’s worth of low-cut tops and high-cut shorts too. If you hadn’t got the impression […]
So, when I was little I used to HATE arguments. Like actually detest ANY conflict. I used to cry when someone raised their voice at someone else, or even brought up a controversial subject. My younger self learnt the phrase “Let’s just draw a line under this” I claimed it as my own. Whenever I felt some […]
Some think teenagers have complex minds, and don’t understand why we feel the need to relate everything to sex. Ironically, we don’t either. It could be because it’s hilarious however it’s probably because everyone says we are like this, so we are. We follow the public opinion. To be honest I don’t think it’s because […]
It is proven that teenagers are utterly unique: no other species have this gap between infancy and adulthood. So in actual fact our brains work differently to adults (as shown above) but let’s not get too sciencey, it’s only Monday after all. In my opinion, all teenagers want is a distraction. Whether that is a […]
productive procrastinating 