So this article at the bottom
yes down there. just scroll.
is written by Ned Vizzini
and it's really good i just read it awhile ago.
and now I'm rethinking my life .
and guess what it HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MUSICALS I PROMISE.
IT'S JUST LIFE ADVICE.
so like, i copy pasted it :)
(stuff in bold are me.)
ok here:
So, you've turned 13,
and suddenly you feel as if you're in Death Valley.
You come home from school and Oprah is on, talking about America's Youth in Crisis;
your parents assail you after dinner with antidrug literature, asking what you've been experimenting with lately;
and from every corner -- school, home, church -- you're being told: ''Be careful! These are four of the most important years of your life!''
Well, relax.
I've been there, and let me tell you:
your teen years aren't that important at all.
The important years come when you want them to.
Ray Kroc was a two-bit, middle-aged, milkshake-machine salesman when he founded a little company called McDonald's.
His most important years started right there.
As for me, I'm a junior at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.
Although I'm still in the thick of my teen-age years, I think I've learned a thing or two by now.
And as far as I can tell, being a teen-ager is just like being a kid,
except that you've got five extra niggling concerns: sex, money, smoking, drinking and getting into college.
First things first: sex.
You already know all about sex
(at least the mechanics of it),
so I'll spare the birds-and-bees stuff.
The most important thing to remember about teen-age sex is that television is not a study guide.
Watching ''Dawson's Creek,'' you get the idea that every American over the age of 11 has a steady boyfriend or girlfriend, and that sordid, love-triangle sex kicks in by age 15.
The reality is far less lurid, I promise.
Your friends are an equally unreliable study guide.
Starting at 12, their bragging begins: ''I did blah-blah-blah with so-and-so."
As a general rule, take everything your friends tell you about sexual experience and cut it in half.
Then you'll have a reasonably accurate picture of what's going on.
As for dating, here are some tips.
Boys: join a rock band.
( hi chloe here, and i can confirm I'm a sucker for that)
Or a sports team.
Or anything.
What girls are really attracted to is affiliation.
Buff up your brooding skills and don't talk much.
Never underestimate the repellent power of dandruff.
When you find out a girl has a crush on you, act fast --
it'll last two weeks at most.
Girls: you'll never be rejected if you ask a guy out.
