Youthful Life: X

Being a teenager is all about reliving the supposed best days of your life. It's about taking a look big and seeing how far you've come. It's flipping through the pages of your life like the picture filled work that is your high school yearbook. It's about being conscious of you are now, as opposed to who you were before. It's about never forgetting where you've been. It's the glory days. *Here's another one - fresh off the video editor, the accompanying vlog post all about rethinking and encountering those godforsaken high school glory days. Enjoy. High school is one of the most memorable places of all time. It cannot be denied that high school is your first real taste of the world. Everything is thrown at your from relationships, to friendships, school work, jobs, community service, and all the excessive drama in between. High school is your entire life when you're in it and when you finish your four years it's unbelievable. Looking ba...

Being a teenager is all about figuring out what to do with yourself. Winter break has officially begun and if you're like me, you must have a huge chunk of time on your hands. What are you going to do to fill up all those days. Home gets old and boring real fast (trust me) - you've got to keep it fresh and liven the place up if your going to make it to the start of spring semester. Idle minds lead to just that, nothing (or sometimes stupidity). One of the many things I can't come to comprehend with the world is why people use boredom as a way to justify themselves acting out. Teenage boys will run around saying "oh I was bored" after they vandalize something or end in up in a hospital or jail. Really? Cause when I'm bored I watch TV and stare in the fridge for no reason. That's what normal people do when they're bored. That's an unacceptable excuse for nonsense. People need to get their lives together and either do something productive or don...

Being a teenager is all about being in the know. Francis Bacon said it best, plain and simple, "knowledge is power." To know is to understand and to act. It's what we're tasked with as teens, as people, and as the human race. We're capable of making decisions, having an impact and making a difference. It's up to each and every one of us to do our part. It's time to deal with the repercussions and move forward from this catastrophe. Let me start this post with a disclaimer - it's concerning the tragic Newtown, CT school shooting massacre. As always, the opinions shared in this post are no one's but my own, respect that and I'll do the same for you. Feel free, and I encourage you to comment below and share your thoughts as well. What happened is one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. I woke up on Thursday morning to a USA Today push notification that there was a potential shooting with the Sandy Hook Elementary school. A couple ...

Being a teenager is all about self-evaluation. It's about reflection and analyzing yourself. Who else knows you and your motives better than you? Why did we do all the thing we did this semester? What happened to us? Where could we have done better, and where did we do really well? It's like those professor evals where you get revenge on your professor for trying to ruin your life, but the awkward part it - this time you've only got yourself to blame. Start coming clean. Coming clean means being real with yourself and everyone else around you about what's gone on. It's all about checking yourself and coming on clean. Watch the vlog entry here: Let me come clean about how I actually spent the last days of my sophomore fall semester at the University of Vermont. Monday morning started with the evil torture that was my organic chemistry final - let's just say, chem and I are never ever getting back together. I was such a mess afterwards, but off to the lit...