Your Actions Can Play a HUGE Role in Your Life

What if you were peer pressured to do everything in your life? What if you couldn't think for yourself and you had to follow the options and thoughts of everyone around you? Sure, you love everyone around you which is probably the reason you surround yourself with those particular people, but if you couldn't make your own decisions about anything EVER what do you think would happen to you? Well you wouldn't be a very interesting person. Most teenagers and kids nowadays feel peer pressured to do most things in their life, but eventually those kids grow out of what is happening to them now and they decide some point in life that they are going to make their own decisions and be independent. Of course, I am still a whacked out teenager, but things that have happened to me and probably will happen in my life have made me think more carefully about the things I do and how my actions can affect other people around me. Sure, I am a negative person who is just as whacked out as any other teenager out there, but I don't want to be peer pressured as much as any other kid out there. I try everyday of my life to not follow the crowd and actually be an individual. I used to be basically in love with this guy, but he didn't know it and I thought the world revolved around him. Looking back at myself I was stupid, but again I was just being myself and a teenager. I am so glad that after spending half of my high school year cooing over him that I found out who and what he truly was. Which like most teenage guys out there a cheese head. He was a jerk and yet after all of the time I spent thinking that I was in love with him and basically watching his every move I only found out who he truly was by my friend. My friend although not one of my good friends, pointed out something really important to me that I had come to overlook in this guy because somehow I had already made up my mind that he was perfect. Alright, so I have been watching all of these movies about teenagers getting pregnant and having children. Of course, I am not pregnant nor will I probably ever be in my teenage years, but it got me to think about all of the kids out there that are peer pressured into having sex and then getting pregnant. I just want to talk about this issue today because more and more younger children are engaging in sexual activities and the world and adults choose to turn their backs and pretend that nothing is happening. Of course, it is a little awkward discussing this with you and although you may not see me as your friend I am and you can confide in me. You, whoever is reading this, I don't care who you are but you are my friend and I want you to trust me. You don't need sex or some stupid guy that only wants sex in your life. You want to be independent, you want to be a individual and recognized? Do something meaningful with your life and don't throw it away over just some guy. Sure, you may be "in love" with him and think that having sex is the only way to show how much you care about this guy, but trust me you don't need to have sex in order to prove to him, yourself, or the whole world that you are in love. Just being around him and in love can prove to him and yourself that you are in love with him as well as the whole world. If this guy only wants to stay with you because he thinks that he is going to have sex with you someday, do the smart thing and break up with him! It is better than giving in to some guy and having sex then having a baby and he leaving you. Okay, you may be careful about what you doing and think why should I listen to some whacked out teenager online? She is just like me and has feelings too and how don't I know that she is having sex after she is done writing this entry? Let me tell you first off I am not even dating someone, but not only that I don't want to have sex yet. I know that I am not ready to take such a big step in a different life and I know that I am not like that. Even if you think you are being careful and taking the necessary  precautions you could very well get pregnant. Do you understand how much that could change your life? Oh hang on guys it could change your lives too not just the girls. If you do decide to stick around you guys then you have HUGE responsibilities to think of. If you are thinking of," Well, I have big responsibilities now taking care of my sick puppy." or whatever you can think of.  Two words. THINK AGAIN. First off, you would have to stay with the mother no matter even if you realize down the road that you don't truly love her. You still have to stay with her no matter what. Not only that your life will get insane. So many options, abortion, having the baby, adoption, keeping the baby. Everything will be changed forever. I just think I wanted to write something about this after seeing the film Mom at Sixteen. Not only are movies and T.V. shows a big part of what teenagers, kids, and people do today and I think that we need to put down the T.V. remote and realize that we need to think for ourselves instead of following the lead of other people whether they be your best friends, role models, or just people on T.V. You need to think about what your actions could bring before you act. Well, on that note I hope you will start to think differently about what you do in your life. Good luck and please remember that I am always here for you. Just one key stroke away. :)