CHANGING FACES
What thing in this world could youthink of that is getting younger every year?
Three years from now, you would notbe a teenager. You will be a woman belonging to twenties. You can’t helpthinking of marriage and parenthood. Try to think of our elementary years,which seem to happened just yesterday. Time flowed so fast. So fast that youcould hardly accept the fact of “getting old”, for nothing compares the delightof being young.
It’s sad to think about it but it’sreality. You can’t freeze time and stay sweet sixteen forever. From thirteen tonineteen, we have seven years living the glory of adolescence. We have sevenyears enjoying the spirit of prime youth. Seven years of continuing childlikeattitudes. Seven years spending it with so many discoveries especially themagical world of love, relationships and friendship. Seven years of undisturbeddreams for the future. YES, seven years, only seven years. Seven years may sound long but for us, teenagers,it’s a nick of time.
Everything in this world istemporary. The delight of being a teen will eventually change.
Teenagers are well-fashioned people.What’s in and what’s hot is our expertise. But when we turn to middle twenties’trends, fashion statement, rock and RNB music, even computer games will not beanymore a big deal for us. We could still enjoy nightlife but the flare ofcuriosity and enthusiasm as young people will fade. What really makes us uniqueand different from other generations is the curiosity within us.
Teenage years are so much ofexperimental years. It is the time of so many dilemmas and the time of so manychoices. What’s perilous is that some youth are walking the wrong path ofgrowing years. This is one fearsome experience one could have. Remember 13 to19 years old is the developing year of maturity. If one matures with the evilphase of life, how can he enjoy the glory of “seven years”? Some of us arewasting our youth with drugs, premarital sex which leads to early marriages,unwanted pregnancies and worst, abortion. We can’t deny the fact that the youthare sharing the biggest percentage of these undesirable trips.
Somehow, sometimes we had chosen thewrong ones, but it’s not too late to change. Every mistake is an experience tobe corrected. It prepares us to higher steps of life. The tension resultingfrom all these mistakes, problems, pain and wrong choices is a part of thewhole piece and usually directs our attention to a growing edge of life – aterritory of expansion.
We’re not getting any younger. Threeyears from now will not be a teenager anymore. Imagine yourself as agrandfather or grandmother; what would you want to be remembered for all thethings you have done while you’re still young? What and how would you tell yourown life story to your grandchildren? When will it be that you’ll say “I’ve madeit!” and conclude, “I was somebody in my teenage years.”
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