“You get the best and the worst as a teen”, as Sophia Bush said. Being a teenager is both amazing and horrible. You make friends and you lose them, you fall in love and you come tumbling down. There are many things I wish someone had taught me before I had to learn it myself in my 17 years of life on this tumultuous Earth, they are the things I wish to pass on to my sister, only nine with an entire lifetime of experiences awaiting her.
She is in control of herself, that includes her emotions and her body. Don’t listen to her bitter mother when she mentions how she seemed to gain 5 pounds over the break. Life is too short to worry about the shape of her body. When she is almost 18 and about to graduate she won’t recall the size pants she wore …show more content…
She should feel her feelings, allow them to wash over her body. One of the hardest things about being a teenager is everyone dismissing your emotions as invalid because you’re a teenager. The stereotype of a teenager is a moody individual who gets angry at their parents for no reason and has a mood as crazy as a tornado, however this doesn’t make her emotions matter any less. She may feel sad one day for no reason, she must ignore those who say she doesn’t have a right to be sad because others have it worse, that is the same as saying she can never be happy because others have it better. She may feel angry one day; she is allowed to deny apologies. “I’m sorry” isn’t the instant cure for everything and sometimes she will have to accept there is nothing that can be fixed. Sometimes she will be selfish, it is okay to be selfish sometimes. We all are, it is human nature. It doesn’t make her a bad person, just …show more content…
There is no one who can do it for her. Not her first love, not her second or third, not her friends, and not even her family. It isn’t arrogant, it doesn’t make her a narcissistic. She should love her scars and bruises; they are a part of her no matter how they got there. She is still lovely. She should love her stretch marks; they tell the tale of her growth over the years. She is a masterpiece, a painting of life, something that should be cherished and filled with self-love. She can’t let others convince her that loving herself is a sin, that only others can love her. Being loved is great but loving yourself is a whole other universe that not everyone has had the opportunity to visit. Once she loves her herself, everything will be easier, she will find an inner peace that is impossible through any other route. The worst thing she can face in her teen years is self-hatred, tearing herself down to a pebble, filling her head with words of
She is in control of herself, that includes her emotions and her body. Don’t listen to her bitter mother when she mentions how she seemed to gain 5 pounds over the break. Life is too short to worry about the shape of her body. When she is almost 18 and about to graduate she won’t recall the size pants she wore …show more content…
She should feel her feelings, allow them to wash over her body. One of the hardest things about being a teenager is everyone dismissing your emotions as invalid because you’re a teenager. The stereotype of a teenager is a moody individual who gets angry at their parents for no reason and has a mood as crazy as a tornado, however this doesn’t make her emotions matter any less. She may feel sad one day for no reason, she must ignore those who say she doesn’t have a right to be sad because others have it worse, that is the same as saying she can never be happy because others have it better. She may feel angry one day; she is allowed to deny apologies. “I’m sorry” isn’t the instant cure for everything and sometimes she will have to accept there is nothing that can be fixed. Sometimes she will be selfish, it is okay to be selfish sometimes. We all are, it is human nature. It doesn’t make her a bad person, just …show more content…
There is no one who can do it for her. Not her first love, not her second or third, not her friends, and not even her family. It isn’t arrogant, it doesn’t make her a narcissistic. She should love her scars and bruises; they are a part of her no matter how they got there. She is still lovely. She should love her stretch marks; they tell the tale of her growth over the years. She is a masterpiece, a painting of life, something that should be cherished and filled with self-love. She can’t let others convince her that loving herself is a sin, that only others can love her. Being loved is great but loving yourself is a whole other universe that not everyone has had the opportunity to visit. Once she loves her herself, everything will be easier, she will find an inner peace that is impossible through any other route. The worst thing she can face in her teen years is self-hatred, tearing herself down to a pebble, filling her head with words of