ADOLESCENTS

Legally and economically they are dependent, and their attempts at emancipated action are frequently undercut by the realization that they cant make their decisions anyway, so what's the use of making decisions. They feel they may as well drift through adolescence and wait for the light to turn green. Suddenly when they are legally emancipated they feel adrift, they dont know what they want to do, and many of them pass time hoping that something will happen, someone will come along, somehow something will turn them on. Yet, at this point, one-fourth of their life has passed.


He is like a plane shooting ahead at full speed, between converging cloud layers. Below, and rising fast, are the boiling clouds of sexual urges and the rebellious struggling for independence; above are the hovering and lowering of parental anxiety and disapproval. He feels things are closing in, and he desperately looks for an opening.


Effort of the will+