Teen Years So they say, "teens- the best years of your #life", whoever says this I am happy to listen. But i beg to differ; perhaps you weren't a teenager in the past decade? Let me explain to you what you may not remember about being a teenager: • Growing pains causing you to get cramp for hours • Being treat as a child yet convinced you are no longer one • Government and society constantly looking down on you as a stereotype • Friends self-harming/commuting suicide because they can no longer cope with the pressure • Not having any money and no one will give you a job • Drugs taken as a casual thing, "have some, go on!" They say. • Alcohol, poisoning your brain even though you intended to be drinking coke? • Parents getting in the way of social #life • No privacy • People pressuring you for sex • Self-conscious: am I fat, too skinny, too tall, too small, is my nose too big, wh is my hair so frizzy, I need a six pack, me boobs are too small, I need to wear fashionable things This is only one side of being a teenager, I'm a happy teenager and one of the best behaving and educated, yet these things are constantly in my face and it causes a lot of stress and weight on my shoulders.