Youthful Life: X

Being  a teenager is all about expecting the unexpected. Teenagedom means that anything and everything can happen to you. You're not immune, you're not superman (One Direction might lead you to believe otherwise), and you're just as vulnerable as anyone else. It's a scary realization to come to but it's the truth. It's always crazy to think about anything going wrong, but sometimes it does. The thing is, you're a teenager and you're capable of doing amazing things like making the best out of any situation, and don't ever forget it. While we're at it, let's just get me generally hospitalized. You're probably wondering what's up with this sort of downer of a blog post, well the truth is I might be a huge mess. I had a little accident and the repercussions were bigger than what I had originally expected. Here's the story. Remember my birthday last week (BTW's I'll blog about the day of later this week) - well it was going ...

Being a teenager is all about making your summer mean something. Summer isn't all about laying around, doing absolutely nothing and catching up on all the episodes and movies you missed out on during the school year. It's about doing something meaningful, finding something that challenges you and makes you think about who you are. Summer is the perfect time to do some soul searching like that Emma Roberts and Alex Pettyfer movie "Wild Child." It's time for the awakening. Since you've got all this free time, it's time to actually do something productive with it. People always ask what your major is, and what you want to do with it when you graduate - but they never ask why you're doing what you're doing. That's the most important part. If you don't have a reason to study then what's the purpose of school in the first place? This summer I challenge you to really look at your life and figure out what makes you feel something. When wat...

Being a teenager is all about dealing with those daddy issues. We've all got some - some just happen to be more major than others. It's Father's Day - and that means it's time to go your ole pops some recognition for keeping you alive, getting you to this point, and helping you along the way. It shouldn't take a nationally recognized holiday to realize the kind of dad you've got. And it shouldn't be only when you need something that you ask oh father where art thou? Just noticed that lately that my blog posts have been getting more and more personal. Well that's a good thing, all my posts are personal because it's just me looking back at everything that happens to me and giving advice or telling stories based off of it. It's like an autobiography up in here. Any who, what constitutes a father? That's a big question to ask and there's really no definite answer. To me a father is someone who cares about you, a child, and goes out of t...

Being a teenager is all about celebrating your birthday. It's about getting together with the people that matter most to you and doing something special. It's a privilege to be able to say you've made it one more year, and it's necessary that you realize that a lot of people don't make it. Birthdays are a celebration of not only you as an amazing, important and unique person, but life as a whole. This is your personal time to rule to world, speak now or forever hold your peace. One of the most repetitive things you hear growing up is people asking you what you want to be when you grow up. Well I've always known I wanted to be a doctor, that was a given. But as I got older, I had alternate back up plans and sprouted some interests and even changed the speciality of medicine I wanted to go into. Now it's my 19th birthday and I'm once again being asked that same question, and honestly I don't know. In kindergarten it was just doctor. In sixth grade ...