They say that being young is the best and the worst time of your life, and I think that’s true.
Youth is the time of having fun, finding your true self, hanging out with your friends and learning from your mistakes. You are not a child anymore but not quite adult either. They expect the same things from you as from adults but they treat you like a child, you have to act and look right to fit in, your parents are too strict etc.These and many other things make youth a difficult period of your life, but on the other hand you don’t have to go to work, you don’t have to provide for your own family, and your biggest responsibility is graduating from school. This is why you have the time to have fun with your friends: the most important people of your teenage years.
For me it has been great so far. We all have our ups and downs but that’s life. I think that these days the media and the internet give the wrong image of being young today. Almost everything that relates to being a teenager is shown negatively or at least worse than it is. For some teenagers it might be like that but I think that at least in Finland things aren’t that bad. School is hard, but it’s also fun because of it is sociality and it lets me feel success when I really work for something and get good grades.
You won’t be young forever so I think it’s important to try new things and for example travel a lot. These are the few highlights of being young and free before growing up. Youth is a really important time of everybody’s life because you get into new situations and thereby learn new things about yourself and in that way you get to know yourself better.
