This rant is for teenagers. Every girl at my high school claims that their lives are horrible and this is for them.
Do you have a bad life?
Do you think you’re depressed? Do you hide it inside because you don’t want to be a burden to anyone?
Do you feel overwhelmed? Do you feel like you can’t take it anymore?
The pressures of society are getting too much for you to handle? You feel like you’re drowning? You’re over thinking everything? You’re hiding behind a fake smile? You “feel mentally drained”? You hate yourself?
Oh, did I suddenly get everyone’s attention? You all said Yes to the questions above? What a surprise.
Well congratu-fucking-lations. You’re average.
You’re life is fine.
No amount of Tweets that say shit like “I may be quiet, but I have a lot on my mind” will change that. No amount of pretending that you’re just “so broken inside” will change that either.
All these self-inflicted problems are not real. Over-thinking and being worried about what others think of you are not problems. Your “horrible anxiety” isn’t a real problem. Look around you. You’re on a website where every single account claims to feel the exact same way. Hmm, have you ever stopped to think that, hey!, maybe it’s not your personal problem, but an average life problem that everyone has? Now obviously this doesn’t apply to that one kid in school who cries when ever the teacher calls on him, but what are the fucking chances that you are that kid. Most likely, you are not.
You’re not special. You are not different than anyone else because you’re having some “inner turmoil” that’s apparently just SO unbearable.
You are not wise. I don’t care how much fucking “thinking” you’ve been doing or how bad it’s “driving you insane”. You think you are the only one who contemplates deep thoughts about the universe and the meaning of life all of the time? You think you’re the only person capable of these thoughts? We literally have all have a brain and no one thinks less than you. Others people just don’t not think. We think literally as much as you do. What do you think we do, turn off our brains in our down time? Why do you think you have more feelings than us?
YOU’RE NOT WISE. Why do you think you see the world for what it really is? Why do you act like you’ve been through so much in your life that it has made you wiser than anyone else when really you have been through nothing out of the ordinary? Why do you act like you are mentally above everyone and more mature than them?
You are so dramatic. You tweet shit like “I just want to disappear for a little while..”. Well, oh yeah? I’d just love to hear your reasons as to why your life is just so hard- Why you feel the need to give up- Why you feel entitled to a break over everyone else. Literally not a single tragic things has happened in your whole life. Yet you act like there’s a whole other bad side to your life that no one knows about or can even imagine, because, you are so fucking dramatic.
All you want is attention. You just want someone to come and save you. You think that just like in movies and books, someone will read your stupid social media post and rush to your side and insist on trying to make you feel better. Too bad it won’t happen. You want the world to know that you are “broken” because you want someone to come and “fix” you. You want to be center of attention.
Well ya know what? People with actual real problems don’t go around broadcasting them to the world like you do. They don’t have time to worry about “societies pressure to be perfect” and other average bullshit similar to that like you do. They don’t go posting pictures of their (self inflicted) scars on instagram to show their “strength” and how big of a “hero” they are to themselves. Mostly, you are not aware of the real problems people out there have, and you never will be.
These people out there have real problems. All you complain about is how tired you are, how you don’t feel like you’re good enough for anyone, and how lonely you think you are just because it is a Friday night and you don’t have plans. To other people these problems are just normal. Average. Because ya know what? Everyone has to wake up at 6:00 am on weekdays, society ruins everyone’s self esteem (not just yours), and none of us have plans every single weekend. People with real problems have to worry about those things, but they aren’t as top priority for them.
…The problems that really set them apart from the average person are problems that are specific and harsher than the typical teenage angst. The real problems can be diagnosed and distinguished.
Disease, mental illness, poverty, abuse, addiction, ect. Problems with in homes that most kids don’t even talk about. None of your “I don’t feel pretty enough today” when you get 45 likes on your instagram selfies.
Now maybe this post doesn’t apply to you, maybe u have an actual real problem in your life, but for majority of you, you are just normal life teenagers looking for attention, yet even after reading this whole post you will still deny it. I am aware that body image and shit like that that I believe are average life problems are serious issues today, but that’s exactly my point; those types of problems affect everybody, so they’re just average people problems. When teenagers act like they don’t affect any one but themselves and want attention for it it is wrong.