Teenage Years

Teenage Years People who are nostalgic about childhood, were obviously never children. Few people can remember the truth about adolescence. Their minds 'censor' their memories; and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free of cares and responsibilities. Well let me say this, you couldn't be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that many adults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, …

…You've got it easy'. These lines are heard much too often. Hopefully, it can only get easier for teenagers to cope with the world and to live to their full potential. Where a teenager can wade through the jaws of advertisers, the popularity contest, their parents, and most of all, depression's cold claws. For, up until now, it never occurred to anyone anywhere that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.