Why-o-u-s-e-f
Why do you wear shades on a cloudy day?
'Cause I'm a teenager.
Why are you inside and never play?
'Cause I'm a teenager.
Why don't you eat breakfast?
'Cause I'm a teenager.
The last couplet was kind of meta...
Why do people incessantly ask me teen-mythos questions? Does it help them in life? Everyday, every teen wears the teen-screen, a screen specifically designed by every teens' brain. As much as adults try to unmask the screen, it becomes tougher in a stubborn way; it's like trying to convince an uptight person to see the benefit-of-the-doubt of something. What if I don't want to learn from that mistake 'cause it was fun and my frontal lobes aren't fully developed? Just blame it on the frontal lobes.
"Yousef, as a parent I'm supposed to give you advice. In the end, it's your choice if you want to take the advice, or leave it," My dad tells me.
"Dad, I don't want advice... I'm not gonna learn from anything if I haven't experienced it at first-hand," I reply like the little shit I am.
Right now, I'm at the prime of my life in some esoteric way to all 17 year olds. I'm 17 years old, aka the best age to be at; fuck thirty. To quote Ladytron, "They only want you when you're seventeen, when you're twenty-one - you're no fun."
I don't think of things as mistakes. I think of them as experiences, and that's exactly what all teens should do - MAKE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES AND MEMORIES as much as a cheesefest as that sounds like. We play video games for too long, are out too much with our friends, drive too fast and sleep too little, and take all the reservations that the twenty-one to thirty-year-olds want. So if you're a teenager, wear your screen proudly for being a coconut.
Why do people incessantly ask me teen-mythos questions? Does it help them in life? Everyday, every teen wears the teen-screen, a screen specifically designed by every teens' brain. As much as adults try to unmask the screen, it becomes tougher in a stubborn way; it's like trying to convince an uptight person to see the benefit-of-the-doubt of something. What if I don't want to learn from that mistake 'cause it was fun and my frontal lobes aren't fully developed? Just blame it on the frontal lobes.
"Yousef, as a parent I'm supposed to give you advice. In the end, it's your choice if you want to take the advice, or leave it," My dad tells me.
"Dad, I don't want advice... I'm not gonna learn from anything if I haven't experienced it at first-hand," I reply like the little shit I am.
Right now, I'm at the prime of my life in some esoteric way to all 17 year olds. I'm 17 years old, aka the best age to be at; fuck thirty. To quote Ladytron, "They only want you when you're seventeen, when you're twenty-one - you're no fun."
I don't think of things as mistakes. I think of them as experiences, and that's exactly what all teens should do - MAKE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES AND MEMORIES as much as a cheesefest as that sounds like. We play video games for too long, are out too much with our friends, drive too fast and sleep too little, and take all the reservations that the twenty-one to thirty-year-olds want. So if you're a teenager, wear your screen proudly for being a coconut.
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