Graduation

So... here it comes, ominously over the hill of adolescent life. because, as we all know, graduation is the peak of being a teenager. besides the significant birthdays (usually 13, 16 and 18 and 15 if you're mexican) and getting a drivers license (and a car to go with it), there is nothing else to look forward to but graduating from high school and getting the hell OUT of your parents' house, because the average spoiled brat teenager is perfectly prepared to move out and live on their own. no. this statement is extremely untrue for most, and its annoying to see the "my mommy and daddy buy me an expensive car and a cell phone and new clothes every week and..." kind of person lecture me or their parents for that matter, about letting them handle their own life because they know how to be "independent".

I'm sick of coddled children who havent, in their parents eyes, grown in maturity past grade school. these kids who drive to parties in their new mustangs and drink to pretend they know about life and its difficulties, and smoke to "relax" or feel like you're part of something the cool kids do. but all the cool kids do is because they're messed up in the head, or their parents abused them in some way and they do it to cope, and though that still isnt an excuse, its what they found to get away from their less than perfect life. and when the spoiled average teenager gets ahold of this "cool" stuff and then talks to the "cool" kid like they understand what they're going through..... its just blasphemy. and it doesnt make any sense to me. because neither of these social groups have realized that there really is more than their clothes and cars and cigarettes. maybe if they'd be a little less wrapped up in themselves, they'd realize there's people out there who... *gasp* ...have a much worse life than they do.

Yes, i'm not perfect. but i dont base my life around my car, and my weekends, and my money. and im glad my parents have managed to teach me something about life, even if i didnt listen most of the time. im thankful for everything i have, and i dont need alcohol and drugs and nice stuff to be thankful. im ok just the way i am because god loves me like that.

so anyways.... graduation :) almost over the hill of high school, and what an annoying and big hill it was.