Click here for a letter.You suck. It’s true, don’t try to fight me on this. I’m a teenager and I suck too. We’re all just a bunch of whiny idiots who can’t get it right. Who knows if we ever will? I sure as hell don’t, and I know for a fact you don’t either. There’s no guarantee that everything will work out in the end. There’s no guarantee that there’s an afterlife (it’s called faith for a reason and you either have it or you don’t). It’s all just a matter of who you are. Are you the jock? The geek? The hipster? The burnout? The artist? The lover? The fighter? Have you ever had to stay up all night because you were too lazy to do your work during the day?
Yeah, probably. You know why? Because you suck.
But that’s just fuckin’ dandy. We all suck anyway, so you might as well have fun with it. Make mistakes. Date someone that’s completely wrong for you. Dance like nobody’s watching, even when someone is. Make an ass out of yourself in public, just for a quick chuckle. The real world’s a-coming and ya best be ready for it. Be a kid while you still can. It’s over before you know it.
Hell of a Time~
I escaped my head
I let loose
I went to bed
Without clutching a noose
Of thoughts and memories
Of my own worst enemy
I got to be me again
And for this I thank my friends
Life’s looking good
I’m smiling widely
Just as I should
I’m acting kindly
I can say the things
That would normally wring
Myself in my mind
Or something of that kind
Smile with me
The kid with class
But no dignity
It can kiss my ass
I just want to have fun
Be a dork then be done
I’ll take you with me on a ride
And we’re gonna have one hell of a time
i much as i should “probably” agree with you, i know you’re right, which in a way is sad cause im supposed to be the “good” kid. if you knew me, then you’d know. im the usual ass who sucks up to people. thanks.
normally i’m the type to argue, but you’re right. i don’t have a clue what’s gonna happen or what i’m doing half the time i do it. it just sucks like that.
but on the bright side, we got time.
a-fuc*ing-men
so f*&^ true :/ i keep talking about how everyone at schools just a bunch of douchebags and then i go say or do exactly what they did
I’m not young enough to know everything, I know nothing.
we gotta make those life-lasting memories while we still can
I understand what you’re saying, but fuck it. I’m a teenager and I know for a fact I’m a hell of a lot more mature than some adults. People say teens suck but in reality, who doesn’t suck? Babies, kids, teens, adults, and old people! They all suck in their own ways too.
Oh teenagers….. I was there not so long ago. I’m 21 now and I have one year left of college. I have some words of wisdom for you: YOU DO NOT SUCK. Adults forget what it was like to be in high school. To live that torture day, after day, after day. In high school, I spent lunches in my car, crying because I didn’t have any friends. I never went out on a date, was the nerd who took Latin, and when I graduated, I never looked back. I talk to two people I graduated with… and they aren’t even my best friends. I remember. High school was hell for me.
Adults look at teenagers today, and all they see is trouble. They see teens as whiny and complaining and moody and all sorts of other stereotypes. The teenage years are hard because you are discovering who you are, what you want to be, and how to deal with peer pressure, and defining your own morals. I know myself and my peers. High school was not that long ago. I remember us…. we weren’t trouble. Not on the whole. We were out to change the world. We are changing the world. We are becoming business leaders, musicians, journalists, nurses, and teachers. We aren’t trouble. Are there people creating trouble from my graduating class? People who ended up in jail? People who aren’t successful and are just working at dead-end jobs? Yes. Are there people from my parent’s graduating class doing the same thing? Yes. YOU ARE NOT DEFINED BY ADULT’S PERCEPTION OF YOU. You have the potential to change the world too.
I am going to college to be a teacher. I want to work with you…. teenagers. I haven’t and I never will give up hope on you. You can go into public service, get an entry level job and work your way up, go to a community college, go to a university, major in whatever the heck strikes your fancy, or travel. Because you have a bright future. You may not know where you are going right now. That’s okay. Think about what makes you happy. Genuinely happy…. you know that elated feeling that doesn’t leave you? Where you just can’t help but smile? That’s happiness. Find out what makes you happy and go with it…. find a career that will allow you to do what you love. When you do what you love, the possibilities are endless. You have the potential to change the world. Remember that.
No matter how smart you think you are, one year from now you’ll realize how little you knew.
True fact bro our generation sucks no doubt about it
recently i turned twenty one so im still a teenager in many ways. but the truth is, everything seems ten times worse and blown out of proportion when you are a teenager. smile as you taste the vinegar and realize that everyone makes mistakes and it’s ok. EVERYONE DOES!! im still making mistakes but im better off because i made them. and remember to shake it off and don’t beat yourself up…life is beautiful…love the small things and be happy.
I agree with you- always stay positive, you never know what tomorrow will bring :] And teenagers do not suck- I know teenagers that are really, really great. I don’t know if you’ve heard of DoSomething.org, but DoSomething is made up entirely of teenagers who are doing good and changing the world EVERY DAY- not because they have to, not because their parents make them, but because they WANT to, and they are good, good people. That’s more than I can say for a lot of adults. Young people have the power to do anything they set their minds to, and I completely agree with you, KJ. That was very well said. I’m 19, and I’m going to be 20 in less than a year. Goodbye teens. But I really have no regrets. Yeah, being a teenager has its sucky moments. We all have those. But that’s the way life is. We’re pieces of broken fragmented glass, tossed against the perilous waves of life, repeatedly beaten and worn down by our trials and problems, but in the end, we become something beautiful- we become seaglass, shiny, smooth, perfect. All of our rough edges gone. :]
KJ, I
Nah, I don’t suck, and I’m not a burnout, jock, hipster, geek, prep etc. Labels are silly, and if your life revolves around what people call you, you’re doing something wrong. My life isn’t simple enough to be squished and compacted into one facet of stereotypical highschool life. If you think you suck, find something you’re passionate about, pour your soul into it, and get really damn good at that something. Just make sure that when you die you somehow made the world a more awesome place. Don’t just be another shit-stain skidmark on history’s underwear.
I personally dont think teenagers suck, and i am one, i completely agree with hannah, why would you not want to be a postive person and try to achieve the best person you can possibly be, i dont mean fit the stereotype that people place on you but work on being yourself and not worry about what other people think, that is alot more fun that messsing up your reputation because your bored with your pitiful life. If you think i suck your so wrong
Well I think i don’t suck and that I’m a pretty fucking cool person, thank you very much:) so you can take all the comments about how “teenagers suck” and stick it in your juice box and suck it yourself ^-^
I feel like this post is telling me to grow up…and be a douchebag of a teenager, and I don’t want that. I WON’T GIVE IN TO YOUR PEER PRESSURE!
I’ll sit here with my Harry Potter trivia, my anime, my classical music, my alt rock music, my notebooks, my best friends, my laptop, and my Bible, unproductively using time and not giving a damn about labels if I want to.
I’d keyboard warrior this guy’s ass, because I hate having to read stuff I don’t want to be true. Its true….I’ve acknowledged it, but the difficult bit it actually doing it.
I see you’re point, and you know what, you’re fuckin right! But that’s a generalization, and you can’t know that about every single teenager. I know I’ve got it right. Despite things such as taxes, I know I could survive in society’s definition of the real world. It’s called being mature and learning from the shit life throws at you instead of complaining that there’s shit in your face. I can’t ask that all teenagers follow my philosophy, because that’s asking a lot. I hold myself up to extreme expectations, most teenagers don’t. Again I agree with this up to an extent, but classifying all teens under that notion, is false. There are always exceptions, in everything. That’s something to remember.
There are almost as many of us teenagers who suck as there are cynical assholes like you. Take a piece of your own advice and live life to its fullest, and don’t bad-mouth the entire population of a people who are just as diverse as the adult community.
It’s true, we suck. You suck. I suck. Everybody sucks sometimes. Everyone is a giant fuckup most of the time, and anyone who denies it, is in the process of fucking up. Shit happens, things go wrong, and you know, we’ve gotta deal with um rather than crying like a bunch of whiny little brats. Teenagers don’t get that. I don’t even know if I get that. ASDFGHJKL;’
Some of you are taking this far too personally and literally. The whole point is that mistakes happen so don’t beat yourself up over it. The world is serious enough so why don’t you take some time to slow down, enjoy the good things, laugh for no reason at all. Those of you getting defensive with my words are merely proving that you do in fact suck.
Live a little. Laugh a lot.
-Z, the guy who wrote this.
I’m 22, but sometimes I still feel like a teenager. Not sure why. I became a youth leader at my church and was shocked to find that they all liked me. High school was pretty much hell for me too. Some of it was my fault, some of it wasn’t. Teenagers frustrate me sometimes, but I like them a lot better then adults. Teenagers know about passion. They are easier to touch emotionally then adults. Adults forget how to live, maybe because they’re so worried about money or something. I worry about money now, but I never want to stop having fun or a light heart. Maybe because I didn’t have that when I was a teenager. But I admire you guys. Teenagers are the best people. With all their faults, I really think they’re awesome. They will do things that adults are too scared to do. For instance: Twister with jello and nacho cheese. About 15 teens from church came over and played Twister in gross jello and nacho cheese. No adult would do it. But it’s true. You can change the world, if only because you are not as afraid as adults. Don’t worry about what people think. It’s not worth it.
Well if you’re a teenager yourself, why are you commanding others to do something you probably found written on some girls’ notebooks?
Sad, but true; teenagers suck.
Have faith, however, because if you learn from your mistakes, listen more than you speak, take advice from someone older who admits their past mistakes and wants to give you a little well meaning advice, then you can avoid being a middle aged person, who sucks. As someone who is 50, trust me when I say, those folks in my age range who suck, were the teenagers who sucked, and though everyone else was a jerk.
By the way, this is the first time in 50 years I’ve used “suck” in any form, and rather enjoy it.
Carry on…
Dicksmash McIroncock is my favorite just because of the name.
I don’t think we teenagers suck in general-just our lives. We are so awkward in our teenage years, so inexperienced in some things that we make mistakes more often than we hoped.
Our parents want us to live our lives THEIR way and our peers want us to be LIKE THEM-and the entire time we’re trying to figure out what the hell we want our future to be. People condemn us too much for rebelling, when in truth we’re just trying to find our paths.
Or maybe I’m the only one who feels like this?
This letter is brilliant.
this was the best thing i have ever read in a long time
You know, when I started reading this, I thought someone had been secretly following me or something. “Teenagers suck” is something that I say all the time, and I agree that it is completely true.
I’d say that this is the best letter, because everything about this is true.
okay so I’m 17, I agree with the sucky thing and the “when will we ever get it right” thing.
But we should atleast TRY to get it right, right? I mean, dating someone that’s completely wrong for you is a stupid waste of time. Why date at all. Like you said, be a kid while you can. Dating is pointless in my eyes.
dude you couldn’t be more wrong, everyone is good in their own way, we all have talent and skills, and we all have weaknesses, we need to accept that, and find ourselves, figure out who you are, laugh play live life, because when you are in front of those pearly gates, anjd you’re looking back at your life you want to think, wow that was worth it, teenagers do not suck, we are the future, each one of us is a flower blooming, it might be3 difficult, and not always pretty, but it’s damn well worth it in the end, love and joy, is all you need, you need to love yourself, and when you do, you can make a life you will be happy to remember, be crazy, go after what your heart desires, dance like noone’s looking, make mistakes, so you’ll be able to say, remember when, i’m forteen, entering my freshmen year, i’m excited and scared, but i know who i am, and i have friends i care about, whatever the world can throw at me, it will never be more than i can handle, thank you for reading and just think about that, if i can help just one person out there like me, this would have been worth it thank you.
I’m a teenager today. Yeah i suck, but with good reason. I have a deadbeat family that ain’t good for nothing, and I get hell because of it. I dont blame them, but if i could I’D leave ASAP. only one thing holds me back. Im a junior in highschool and i got no way to get to college yet. But yeah, teens, we suck, but get used to it, cause were not goin anywhere, and each day we grow in strength and we are closer to running the world. But when we do run it, we’ll be ready.
Am I the only one here who thinks enough of herself and others to say “dude, you’re full of it”?
I rock. You may think that’s narcissistic and vain, but I’m not going to apologize for saying that, because it’s true. I do. You know what else? My friends rock. Many of the people I see in the hallway rock. Hell, I don’t know you, but you probably rock.
I do not as a person suck. Things that I do may sometimes suck. Things that you do or my best friends do or my girlfriend does may sometimes suck. That doesn’t mean you or they or she suck as people. You know who sucks? Hitler. Hitler sucks. Hitler sucks hardcore. Are you Hitler? I didn’t think so.
Jesus Christ. And we wonder why teens worldwide are having self-esteem problems when “we suck” is a generally accepted statement. Guys, I know it’s tough sometimes. I’m not saying it’s a bowl of candy roses for me all the time either, because it’s so very much not. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a good time while we’re here, does it?
Go find your iPod, your car stereo, your grandmother’s radio, a sister’s music box. Now. Turn it up and live it up.
*ahem*
this goes for adults too.
http://lettersillneversend.com/2012/01/27/this-is-how-messed-up-i-am/ Enough said. I feel so bad for all the teenagers today <3
Are you all so tied up in who is right? Sure teenagers do suck sometimes. It sucks being one. But really? This was meant to be an escape from judgment. Who are you to tell someone that they are wrong? Burning people because you think their mind is wrong? We sure have our own talents. I mean hell, i can draw sometimes.
I was a teenager not too long ago, so when I first started reading I identified with the teenage group, and you told me I sucked and for the next paragraph or so I just thought you were an angry, pessimistic jerk. Don’t take that too hard, I actually only say it because by the end I thought it was really cool where you went with it and that caught me by surprise.