Teenage
'Which life shall I follow, which path should I take? Should I go left and right, and make the same mistakes, l ike I've done in the past Or should I move far away and start again?' This is an extract from the poem 'What should I do' by Meghan Magallanez. It appropriately describes the dilemma faced by all individuals in teenage. "You're 13!" says the mother to her growing child on his birthday. The child innocently asks, "Why is that important?". The mother replies with such a sweetness, that it unnerves the child, "You're now a teenager!" The initial moments of acute joy are experienced by the child after this reply. But at night, he is unable to acknowledge himself. He has grisly nightmares--What is he now? What has he become? Has he lost his innocence that very day? What awaits? Teenage is a very commonly used term, which is used even by a layman to convey the age of a person, who looks somewhat broad in his...