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begin this journey—no, your journey—by reviewing the challenges of adolescence
and emerging adulthood.
Today adolescence is a very difficult period of time in a person’s life. To me this part of my life sucks and I wish it would progress quicker. When you become a teenager everything about you changes, whether it is your physical appearance, personality or emotions. I’ve figured out that all of these things change because of the environment that you live in and also the people that surround you. These three things play a very important part in my life and I try my best to keep it well balanced, unlike some teenagers. When you change your friends also start too change and a set of events take place.
Friends have a big influence on our lives, but sometimes they push us to do things we may not want to do. The first step to standing up to peer pressure is to understand it, which many of us teenagers don’t really know how to do without worrying about what to say and how to go about it. So what we need is role model’s! To help us decide and guide us which way to go in our future to make it the right one for you. It’s tough being a teenager, always have to go to school and make the right decisions, choosing friends carefully and making sure you don’t end up in the wrong crowd.
You can be really close with a person or hate their guts for one tiny mistake they did in the past. Sometimes you can be neglected by your peers for just being who you are. It’s ridiculous to see the amount of teenagers getting picked on for being who they really are to society. It’s boring if we are all the same, why can’t we be different without having someone else to judge us. Bullying has been a problem for many years between adolescents with their peers making it harder to stop violence. Adolescents who are bullied have certain characteristics which make them easily targeted.
Victims of bullies can suffer both short term and long-term effects. Short term, they can become depressed,...
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