Re: Dirty Trick
the.tourist@excite.com
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:48:32 -0800 (PST)
Reading all about being a teenager is, for me--a twenty-one-year-old--really
sort of amusing. Please don't think I take your plight lightly, at least
any more lightly than you will in a year or two. I'm so close to my teenage
years, and I feel so protective of the angry passionate idealism of
adolescence (having two teenage siblings) that I can't help but smile in
admiration of your suffering. Sort of the way we admire Jesus' suffering,
or Holden's.
I simply can't agree with Camille's sort of nihilistic view of growing up,
because I'm living proof that it's not true. Here's the skinny, I think.
At least, this is how I've got by, and continue to get by:
Find something you like to do, and do it. Find someone you like to be with,
and be with him or her. Everything else is peripheral.
Maybe grades and after-school jobs and SATs are important to you; only make
certain that your priorities are really your own.
Jim wrote:
> Just don't get married young.
Hallelujah! I christen thee Saint Jim.
--Brendan
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