It’s been 14 years I took birth. Only 14 years. But I’ve learnt many more things that elders at my age had learnt. The times have changed, and so did the maturity of young people. Older people don’t understand our level of thinking. I have reached teenage lately but have experienced much more of it. From back bitchers to true friends, from attractions to false love – too much but not everything. No one can ever learn everything because there is too much to be learnt in this world.
In this phase of my life, I understand the difference between childhood and adulthood. But this stage is really confusing for me. I am hung between both the stages. I belong to none of these groups. I no more like the cartoons on television but I don’t even like news channels. Big people say that I am too young to hang out with them, whereas small people say that I have grown out to get along with them. People from both the age groups think my age group as annoying. No one can understand us except for we ourselves. I know everyone has gone through this phase, but at different times. So they can not feel what we feel.
But this is the truth that many people going through this phase think that they have gone through, like say - everything. I know this because I am myself facing it. But I know I have not seen it all. There is much more to be realized. What we have seen is just a pinch of everything that is yet to be seen. Teens generally think that they have seen the world. They think that they know everything. But I know where I stand. I know I have not experienced everything. After all I’m just fourteen. I was lucky to have an elder sister who guided me all the way and did not let me get off the way. So I know I am still a baby and I need to live more.
After facing one year of teenage, I really have to accept that teenage is exciting, adventurous, eccentric, ecstatic, and everything in this world. I am looking forward to see much more of teenage years, a phase where I will really grow up. Before my 13th birthday, I always used to hate those teenagers. I used to think, what do they think of themselves. They behave as if their life is adventurous or something, but now I understand the reason for their strange behavior, because I am one of them. The day of my thirteenth birthday itself brought a big adventure which made me feel that I am a teenager now and teenage life is outstanding, but the adventure is another story.
