Tips for teens

[Midnight22]

- Pay it forward...

- you might think you havnt done much while you were in highschool, but if you think about it, you made yourself the way you are now, thats an accomplishment, especially when everyones like my life sucks lemme kill myself...

- definitly respect your parents...

- definitly help around the house... they might not let you know that they know, but it will be on the back of their minds and they will remember you doing it...

- if you are in a relationship, and you arnt happy, get out of it, it isnt worth it, the right person for you is out there, and you will meet her/him... you might be sad for a bit, but then you think about it and realize what a living hell you were in and you will feel better, and then feel like nothing can go wrong when the right person actually comes along...

- learn something unique, or do something thats fun for you... keep doing it, it will give you something to do when you are down

- do be an asshole to people, let s*** slide, it isnt worth it, but if you take the step dont back down, your actions define who and what you are...

- if you step up to defend someone, if you lose, not only will you have lost, but the person you are defending has lost...

- get to know people, there are many many awesome people out there, so what if they arnt "cool", everyone is cool in their own right, and just cuz they do s*** different from everyone else, who gives a damn? if you do, what does that say about you?

- think before you speak

- spend a day observing people, just chillaxin... while you do it, you will be like... why does everyone hustle so much? you'll have less stress and feel alot better when you arnt in the mad rush everyone else is in, nothing is so important that your life revolves around it, take it easy, you own your job, not the other way around, if it no longer seems fun to you, there are other jobs and other people out there

 

[FunkyBuddha]

Yea I have some tips, I am not old, but not a teen anymore either...

1)Treat your parents with as much respect as you possibly can.

2)Don't lie to your parents, seriously! Honesty goes a loooooong way!

example. When I was a teen, if I was going to be going to a party, I would tell my mother and father where it was, and when I might be back, and what I was going to be doing! They let me go, they just wanted to know what I was doing in case something happen.

3)When you are living at home, CHECK IN! If you are out and about, give em a call and say "hey this is whats going on." takes 5 mins maybe!

4)Don't do drugs....that good ol sorta of deal.

5) Help out around the house as much as possible!

6)If you have some extra money, offer to take THEM out for a night, movies...dinner, things like that! Odd sounding, yes?? But it helps with your relationship with your parents.

7)Try and find a project that you and your father/mother can spend sundays or saturdays doing! For myself and my dad is was working on the Camaro, and playing some video games in a competitive manner. Smack talk...all that good stuff.

One last tip! Try and live at home as long as you can, cause living on your own having to pay your own rent...all that good stuff sucks, unless you have lots of money.

p.s. When you are out on your own, and get in a bind if you have treated your parents well and have a good relationship with them they will be a lot more likely to help you out of that bind!!!

NUFF SAID

Couldn't have agreed more. I am now closer to my parents at 24 than I was at 17....what a change.

 

[AndrewF150]

One of Lara's tips stands out to me a lot..

"Learn to cook"

I have been cooking since I was about 5, and I mean really cooking. Not only will learning to cook help you find someone, and impress the ladies but it will help yourself. You will be able to eat healthy! On top of that people that get into the culinary arts tend to come to one very very common thought...."try something new all the time." you will want to experiement with different foods from different cultures.

So basically learning to cook has some perks...
health, its impressive, exciting!

 

[CustomMSP]

Midnightracer22,

All excellent points!

 

[vindication]

work now, and by the time you're about 25(give or take a year), you can have fun for the rest of your life. Because it's better to work hard for the first 25 years rather than the last 60 years.
or,
win the lottery.

 

[+ friction]

Be a drug mule...they make great money!!!

 

[+ friction]

But seriously, another one: do not take your parents for granted (if they are still around).

I am only 30, and I'm very quickly losing my father to dementia...you never know when tragedy/illness may strike.

 

[thewrench]

Not every person deserves respect, but they do deserve common courtesy.

You don't know everything, that only comes after you're over 40

Everything in moderation.

and oh yeah, nevermind Dreeza-

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[Mach 3.5 Turbo]

I'm 21, and the biggest thing I've learned is that by the time you're 20, you won't even remember how you used to be when you were 19. Take advantage of these years to change yourself, or to cement yourself. After these years, you will likely get a job and live in the same area for the rest of your life. Take the time now to find what you really want to do, and take steps toward it (even the steps suck, like 5 years of college or 4 years in the military). But remember, don't put too much into your goals. They might change. I've switched majors and had friends switch colleges, jobs, drop out, or quit the military and come back to college again. That's your choice to make, never feel like you're stuck or you've already lost the fight. You're only stuck if you don't have the will to get out. You have the time and the opportunity to do things now that you may never be able to again. Take that senior trip, go to the college YOU want, but that new car and lose your ass in the deal, go to europe, start a band, and on and on and on. If you don't do it now, you won't do it in the future.

Remember, your college years are a time to lose money. You'll spend the rest of your life making it and saving it. Lose it now while you still can!!! I'm broke and loving every minute of life. I spend it as soon as I get it, because I know that there will come a time when I can no longer do this. Maybe this isn't financially sound advice, but so what. I'm havin fun while the penny-pinchers don't have a single story to tell because they're sitting in their room gaurding their piggy banks. I have far too many friends who already have jobs that just sit around and hoard their money and never do what they want. They're miserable, but they have 10,000 in the bank being saved up for their new house. Whoopity-doo. If you die broke owning nothing at all, you win. Those who die with the most stuff, left all their stuff behind. Invest in something you can take with you . . . memories.

As you get older you might have a friend or two die. One of my close friends from high school was killed in a traffic accident last year. It wasn't his fault, and he didn't even see it coming. This is the largest thing that has influenced my attitude in the past year. You never know when you're time is up, so why plan for the next 20 years? I'm not trying to advocate irresponsible living, but don't get so involved with preparing for the future that it never comes. I don't want to live my life every day for tommorow, when eventually the day will come when I'll die tommorow, and I haven't lived yet. We as humans live our lives preparing. We prepare for high school to prepare for college to prepare for a job to prepare for retirement to prepare for death. Not to be morbid, but all paths lead to the same end. My path isn't neat and cut and clean. Take detours, take the wrong direction sometimes. Make life interesting.

Drink lots of beer and Whiskey (or whatever alcohol floats your boat). Pot's fine by me, if that's your thing. Everything else, no matter what people say, is a pathetic waste of time and money. The only reason people do the "hard stuff" is because they need the feeling, but because they enjoy it. Like thewrench and everyone says, moderation is key. You'll realize this soon enough when you find something that you do so much that it isn't fun anymore. But you still do it and do it and do it. Realize that this is an addiction, and have the willpower to stop. I've found that even though I'm a near-perfect, sexy, intelligent, charming, funny, whitty, wealthy individual, I still have faults and addictions and I am fighting them every day.

Basically, take control of your own life and live it how it feels right to you. If it doesn't feel right, it isn't. If it feels right, but everyone tells you it's wrong, screw em. Take advice sparingly. You can learn a lot from experience. Experience life.