4E1 English Blog

As a teenager, I do not think that teenagers have more frustrations than delights in their lives. On the contrary, I feel that teenagers live life with all kinds of adventure and excitement that will never bore them. Most of them have a happy-go-lucky nature that is always happy and does not worry about anything. They are carefree and take things in a very easy and relaxed manner. Having said that, even when meeting with stressful events in their lives, teenagers nowadays tend to respond by doing something relaxing such as listening to their favourite music or spending time with their close friends. Even when going for a meal at a fast food restaurant with their good friends can also be enjoyable for an easily contented teenager. For me, I would love to have quiet moments at home whereby I will play soothing music from the music player and lie on my bed in a relaxing manner, accompanied by air conditioner. I believe this is a good way to relieve stress as this can make me reflect on the things that I have done for the past few days.

Even though I feel that the delights of the teenagers are more than their frustrations, I think that teenagers will still face frustrations which are unpreventable. One of them is the difficulties faced in their school. Teenagers often get stressed up by their studies because some are heavily affected by their unsatisfactory results and these can lead to losing attention and focus during lessons.

Family and friends are also major factors in causing frustrations on teenagers. Due to intolerable amount of nagging, a teenager at his/her rebellious stage will easily raise arguments with his family members. This can create a tension between the teenager and the family, resulting in a communication breakdown and teenager receiving insufficient love and concern from family members. A communication breakdown can be caused by not showing adequate care by working parents with their increasing busy schedules which can easily make them lose focus on spending quality time with their child.

Those who are involved in a relationship, which is known as ‘puppy love’ to the adults, will probably, be affected in their studies when they face a break up. As what our cohort manager Mr Felix has said, having a relationship at this moment is unfavourable because if a relationship ended undesirably at the wrong time, it will be a disaster for both parties as we are soon taking our O Level’s next year.

However in my opinion, most teenagers do not recognize these factors as problems which will affect their daily lives. With their happy-go-lucky nature, they will tend to face their problems with a positive and cheerful attitude. So I reckon this is one of a common character that teenagers nowadays have that is taking things very lightly.