The truth about teenagers
Since I work on the computer in the early mornings, and we take few calls, leaving me tied to a computer with nothing to do (I used to study while I was in school) I spend my mornings reading what others have to say for their days on lots of different blogs I’ve bookmarked. I always find something to think about, and I’m glad I get the chance to do it. Gives me a perspective for the day, something to think about. Today was no exception. One of the blogs I enjoy reading is Time for Your Meds. Today when I was reading I saw the following excerpt from an entry on June 1st:
My point here is this: Every single teenager you know, whether it’s your own child or someone else’s child, can take one of two paths: They can take the straight path or they can take the psychedelic highway (which is the road I was traveling that night when I was puking out the window). And the thing is this–when a smart, intelligent child with very few options meets with failure time and time again through no fault of his or her own, he or she will eventually give up, and decide to take that psychedelic path. Sure, it’ll be fun for a while…but sooner or later, she will end up on my unit and when I ask her what happened she will say, "My Aunt’s cheap ass blogger friends wouldn’t send me to Washington and I became a crack addict!" "I lost my dreams. I lost my soul."
This is so true. Not that my daughter is necessarily going down the psychedelic highway, but she did go from having dreams of going to UCLA and having a career to really not having plans and not knowing what to do with herself now after graduating HS this May. She isn’t getting ready to go to college like some of her classmates. She doesn’t have a job. And she thinks that partying is the best thing ever.
Made me sad really. The post above was asking for donations to help a teenager go on a trip to DC. Follow the link, and if she still needs help and you can do it - do so. A mind really is a terrible thing to waste.
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