Theme 1 The Life of a Teenager - Me now (and in the future)

So, I don't think I have anything special to say about this text. Just enjoy! :)

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Me now (and in the future)

I was lately just thinking about the pros and cons of being a teenager. Especially when you're my age, which is 16, you're old enough to have liberties you weren't allowed to have when you were younger. You're old enough to have a freedom to come and go however you like, and your parents trust you to do things by yourself, but you're still living with them. The pros with living with your parents are that you just don't have to do all the things by yourself. With that I mean, you don't yet have all the responsibilities you'd have if you lived alone. For example, you don't have to pay the bills or do the laundry, et cetera.

But sadly, life as a teenager isn't always a bed of roses. For example, me and my friend were waiting for the bus to come in a shopping centre. We were behaving properly and we definitely weren't disturbing anyone - I was even holding a shopping bag. We - paying customers - still got kicked out of the shopping centre by the security guard, only because we happened to be teenagers. And that isn't the first time something like that has happened to me.

You don't always get the appropriate treatment when you're a teenager. People may not take your opinions seriously or listen to you, because you're not legally an adult. The worst thing is that sometimes people assume you're up to something bad or you're assimilated with a hooligan only because you happen to be the same age as them. That kind of treatment isn't fair and it's insulting.