When I was little, I used to look up to my neighbor. He was 16, a tall, gangly kind of guy; one of those badass types who would skateboard around the neighborhood all day with his weirdo friends. One of them would have a crazy mohawk, the next this wicked golden streaked afro (he used to wear this silver tee-shirt to match it LOL) and I would think to myself, "Being a grown-up is so much fun, I can't wait till I'm old enough to go out on my own! It'll be so cool when I don't have to listen to mom and dad anymore and I can just have fun all day!" (Because yes, my immature little 7 year old mind still used words like grown-up. :P )
And now, when I'm finally old enough, I can't help but remember those good old days when I was 7 years old and think to myself, "Damn. Being a kid was so much fun! I wish I was a kid again." Well, its either that, or "Damn. Being an adult must be so cool! I can't wait to get older!"
Moral of the anecdote: You'll never, ever, be completely happy with what you have, or who you are. No matter how smart you are, no matter how good-looking, or how good at writing (*wink*), you will ALWAYS be wishing you had more. Its human nature.
It is this constant desire for self-improvement which is both a boon and a bane. While its good that it makes you want to continuously improve, its also bad in that it makes you lose sight of the things that are really important to you.
For example, one of my New Years Resolutions this year was to try and become a more interesting person. You know, the kind of person who can hold a lucid conversation with just about anyone. Then I thought to myself, whats the use of that if you can't speak like Morgan Freeman? So then I resolved to improve my PR skills and build-up a little more on my public-speaking. Then one thing led to another, and a quick game of personality-dominoes later, I found myself with twelve different resolutions, half of them rather far-fetched.
So yeah, if there's one thing I've learnt during my 5 years so far as a teenager, its that the single most important thing in life is to JUST BE YOURSELF. Don't try unnecessarily to be something you're not and screw up what you really are in the process.
Be happy with WHO YOU ARE, and the rest of the world will love you all the more for it.
Until day after tomorrow. :)
And now, when I'm finally old enough, I can't help but remember those good old days when I was 7 years old and think to myself, "Damn. Being a kid was so much fun! I wish I was a kid again." Well, its either that, or "Damn. Being an adult must be so cool! I can't wait to get older!"
Moral of the anecdote: You'll never, ever, be completely happy with what you have, or who you are. No matter how smart you are, no matter how good-looking, or how good at writing (*wink*), you will ALWAYS be wishing you had more. Its human nature.
It is this constant desire for self-improvement which is both a boon and a bane. While its good that it makes you want to continuously improve, its also bad in that it makes you lose sight of the things that are really important to you.
For example, one of my New Years Resolutions this year was to try and become a more interesting person. You know, the kind of person who can hold a lucid conversation with just about anyone. Then I thought to myself, whats the use of that if you can't speak like Morgan Freeman? So then I resolved to improve my PR skills and build-up a little more on my public-speaking. Then one thing led to another, and a quick game of personality-dominoes later, I found myself with twelve different resolutions, half of them rather far-fetched.
So yeah, if there's one thing I've learnt during my 5 years so far as a teenager, its that the single most important thing in life is to JUST BE YOURSELF. Don't try unnecessarily to be something you're not and screw up what you really are in the process.
Be happy with WHO YOU ARE, and the rest of the world will love you all the more for it.
Until day after tomorrow. :)
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