I feel bad by badmouthing NHS online, but I'm not badmouthing the institution itself. I don't mind assisting in the community and being expected to keep my grades high.
No, what I really don't like about it is the people.
This may confuse some of you, as I am perfectly fine with most of the people most of the time. And I really am. I duly enjoy the company of most of the members because they are in general very intelligent and considerate.
It's only IN the society that people start to annoy me.
Strangely this has nothing to do with the society's purpose either. There's no reason to dislike my fellow volunteers.
The real reason is: I hear things about people that I don't want to know. The things, I mean, are what I don't want to know.
The reason for THIS, in turn, is that I am in the dark about how us teenagers really act.
I'll make it clear: I hear about people's relationships and what they do for fun, and always hear about parties and other wild methods of entertainment that border on hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure alone). This not only seems ironic to the point of the HONOR society, but also gives me a bad image of otherwise upstanding students.
To be honest, I don't know what teenagers do. I just hear fragments of things and make assumptions. I don't know if something is a joke or an extreme example or a lie or what.
I need ANSWERS. To what extent to teenager's "relationships" go normally at this age? What do they do for fun? I'm tired of being in the dark and I don't want to probe.
Besides, if you answer this, that'll help me formulate my social behaviors in the long run.
Maybe I seem sheltered, but I prefer to think I'm misinformed or perhaps willfully ignorant for the sake of my own ego. In any case, I'd like to know.
Furthermore, I don't like to think differently of people. I assume they are good people and that they don't do much of anything other that what they're expected to.
On Thursday, author Patrick Jones talked about how annoying it is when most teen literature is painted with unrealistic scenarios and rosy sterilized depictions of life. I prefer not to think the world operates the way he says it does. If it does, let me know. What are your experiences or knowledge?????? (and don't mislead me anymore!)
Okay, so that you don't feel so sheltered, lots of teenage relationships are the sweet, innocent kind, and then there are the ones where they smoke and have sex all the time. THe "teenage experience" and "how [we] have fun" is relative to the group of people within this general group. Many teens like to dabble in getting high, drinking, and having large parties where groups of people meet at a house to do all of these things. Then there are the less extreme crowds of people that like to go to the movies, go bowling, have a few friends over to simply enjoy a casual There are bookies who like to read and talk about books, there are weirdos who like to just freak out and spazz when they have friends over. there are people who go out to eat a lot, and chit chat over that. Ther are also people who just like drama and instert themselves into everyone else's business and get into the nitty gritty of relationships. Some people don't have enough excitement in their lives, and recreate it by over-dramatizing everything, and making a big deal out of little things. I'm pretty sure observation is key. Maybe your ethnography should be on teenagers in general, Cody, as you do seem to be outside the loop (but not in a bad way :D you expressed this yourself - you don't tend to possess the usual qualities of teenagers)
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