Dear Teenager:
Once upon a time, I too was a teenager. I am here to tell you if a grown-up ever tells you that it's the best time of your life, it's only because they have forgotten how hard it was to grow up.
I became a teenager somewhere between my ninth and tenth year. Don't forget, my parents divorced when I was nine, so there was little if any supervision in our house until my mother remarried three years later. by then it was too late to harness me. I came and went as I pleased. I got myself in heaps of trouble too.
If I could impart just one seed of knowledge to the aching teenager, it would be this:
" This too shall pass"
It may seem like it will last forever, but before you know it, you will be all grown up and on your own and depending on the decisions you make now, you may rule your universe.
I think back to the day I quit school because my principal's daughter taunted me in class saying things like, " Oh she doesn't know what she's talking about, she's crazy." Why didn't I just let the principal handle it? He could have switched me to two other classes, that's all I had with her. He most definitely would have chastised her for her actions. My life would have gone in a much different direction had I stayed in school.
If life is unbearable at home, join every extra curricular activity you can, it will keep you off the street and away from home. Volunteer at a hospital or go to the library and study, study, study. Aim for A's, college is not out of reach if you have the grades. If you have to rebel, don't be a rebel without a clue like I was, rebel in a positive way. Show them all that you can achieve the American dream, you really can!
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