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Sept. 7, 2004 I figured it was time for me to get started on another article today and I walked around school looking for inspiration. Usually, it would just take me a couple of seconds to spot something I could write about 600 words on, but today it was different. What was it with today? Today I wanted to show the good side of people. Teenagers aren’t all bad. They’re not all airheads and they’re not all depressed lunatics. There are some intelligent ones, some nice ones, and some-believe it or not-nice AND intelligent ones. “How did this happen?” you cry out, “Why has she stopped being so critical?” I haven’t. I just want to show you that teens aren’t all evil. What started me on the idea? I’ll tell you. Today during my free period, I was hanging out with my friends like I always do. The five of us sit around a small table crowded with soda cans, textbooks, a laptop and odd scatterings of cell- phones and food wrappers/containers listening to music (playing form the laptop in case anyone was wondering) and talking about whatever comes up. We’d been talking about card games and one of the ones we’d been discussing was called “Ratscrew.” I made a somewhat lewd comment about Chris and rats and Chris grinned and gave me an equally lewd come-back. I immediately spit out my mouthful of Dr.Pepper in an attempt not to choke; I got to walk around school with a Dr.Pepper stain down my shirt for the rest of the day. What does this have to do with anything? It is there to show that I look ridiculous when I went around asking the question “If three guys/girls asked you out right now, the first being super hot, super easy and super stupid, the second being okay looking, had a cool personality and had a decent sense of humor, the third being butt-ugly, temperamental, but at the same time had a great personality (when he/she wasn’t ticked off) and a workable sense of humor, which would you say yes to?” To my utter astonishment, the majority chose the second choice. Actually, the one thing that really amazed me was that they didn’t just laugh and walk off when they saw the condition of my shirt. I learned something new today: not everybody is a shallow *&%#$. Maybe it’s not time for me to give up on the human race yet. Maybe, just maybe, there is more to us than our skin, something of more substance than make-up or hair gel; something like a soul. ------------ About the author: Ambreen is a somewhat cynical high school student who thinks teenagers are pretty much crazy (herself included). Any questions? Email Ambreen at: stardust_inc786@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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