Life as a Teenager

Being 16, I am still early in my teen years. Being a teenager, my mind is most impressionable and vulnerable at this time. I try to make the right decisions, and learn from the wrong ones. Its been very hard to be a teenager. I regret what I've done, and regret what I haven't done. This is the time in my life when I am trying to figure out who I really am, why I am here, and trying to understand what the world is like.
My scathing at times, and constructive at other times teen life began when I was thirteen. I had already been following the so called "wrong path," that I was taught about in elementary school, church, and warned about by everyone else. By no means did I think I was normal, and I wasn't peer pressured into much of anything I did. I started drinking when I was twelve. By the time I was thirteen I was already a seasoned alcoholic. Nobody made me start, and I wasn't trying to fit in. I was curious. I wanted to be happy and feel older than I really was. …