Youthful Life: X

Being a teenager means always having to deal with your siblings. That may mean some rough tough fights, and a whole lot of yelling matches. Probably includes some stealing money, borrowing clothes without asking, and ridiculous pranks that just cause more problems than laughter. Here's the thing about family, you can't choose your family, and whether you like it or not, you're related, so you should probably get used to the embarrassing situations and unexplainable moments. For example, I have this brother, and you shouldn't even get me started on him because our feud probably dates back to the day I was born. Overall I would say we were close, but the fights, battles, and out of control incidents have been more than enough for this lifeftime. The older we got, the more vicious and unbearable each encounter got. Somehow, overtime I just became my brother's keeper. Y'all probably know the story of Cain and Abel, no I'm not about to go biblical of you all an...

Being a teenagers means looking within yourself to figure out who you truly are. It's about defining what matters to you and doing what makes you happy. It's about standing up for what you believe in and taking a stand when you're wronged. One the greatest things that plagues us as young people is physical beauty. We're on a constant quest to be the best looking person of all time. All the products we use, acne creams, the clothes we wear, and some even go as far as plastic surgery for nose, boob and tushy jobs. It's out of hand. The pressure comes from everywhere, to please our parents, to attract the most girlies/suitors, and to be the center of attention, but what we don't realize is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't say that to be corny or cliché, it's meant to be read that we can only like how we look if first like ourselves. Get ready to go down and deep within yourself.   Yesterday, I was watching CNN with my dad and ordering ...

Being a teenager means moving on, letting go, and growing the heck up. It's the truth, you can only be in high school for a so long, but it seems like a lot of people have a hard time letting go of the past. As I've said before, and I'll say it again, you can't move forward if you're still being held back by your past. It's like dating one of those super-dainty high maintenance chicks who carries all her baggage around with her. Look here girlie, we're only going out to dinner, and it's not necessary for you to be sporting your entire wardrobe for just one night out on the town. If you've graduated high school, you need to read this and understand it well. Before you go off to college you need to get yourself out of the petty, overdramatic, everything-is-the-end-of-the-world mindset of high school. You're going out on your own, you have a fresh start, but if you're step in the doorway of college life, with the other left behind in the world o...