APPENDAGE #3: My Secret Public Journal, Entry #021: Teenagers: The Boys & Girls In The Kliq

"Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time.
They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
-Quentin Crisp

I don't know what it is about them. It's almost kind of cliche'. It feels like a stereotype, but the majority help to make it more factual than not. "We're not immature!," they say as they huff and puff and stomp around like three year olds. "That's for babies! I'm an adult!" and the classic "Who gives their twenty-one year old daughter a curfew of 11pm?!" It's like with every statement they help dig themselves deeper into that cliche' genre of young and reckless. Repetition helps desensitize the morality of it all, I guess. It's all quite amusing to me, but if I'm being perfectly honest...

They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me

The boys and girls in THE KLIQ
The awful names that they stick

...not that I would want to. Not again anyways. I think that's what really scares me...did I used to be like them? Is this the kind of example that I have set?

They said all
Teenagers scare
The living shit out of me
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me

It's amusing but sad as hell. Like cute little destructive puppies chewing everything up and shitting everywhere. And it's okay at first because they don't know any better, but then they grow up to be dogs, and you can't help but roll up a newspaper and whack 'em on the nose a time or two, because the reality of it is that it's not cute anymore, and it's not all that amusing now.

They said all
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
OrMaybe they'll leave you alone
But not me

ALL TOGETHER NOW!

Yet they wonder why...why do they get talked to in the manner that they do, why are they constantly reprimanded, and why do they have rules and regulations to abide by. If you act like a child you will be treated as such, no if, and's, or but's about it.

Their parents might be able to turn a blind eye and say it comes with the territory, but the way I remember it is if I had acted that way I would have gotten a verbal foot in the ass, if not a physical one. It's a little sad to sit back and watch, and I know I'm not their parent, but I would have hoped that they would have gotten a better example from me.

I know it's not my place, but if no one is going to teach these kids that life isn't always going to go their way, and that they aren't always right, and for fucks sake you're not as young and invincible as you might think then I'll step up. You might have everyone else fooled, but I've been there before.

As for everyone else, maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me...