Posted by Christian on May 31, 2009 under Teen Life | 
Teen being abstinent is one of best decisions you will make as a teenager. What does it mean to be abstinent? Being abstinent means to voluntarily stop doing something. In this case I am talking sex. Sex is a good thing, don’t let it seem that I am telling you that sex is bad but you just need to hold it off until you’re married. So you may be wondering, why should I be abstinent. One of the most important reasons is STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). STDs are transmitted through sexual intercourse or intimate sexual contact(beware of whom you kiss)! Common STDs are HIV(a big killer), Chlamydia, syphilis, chancroid, and many others. These STDS can affect your life drastically. Your sexual life will never be the same after you contract an STD. You will probably never get married, your goals will have to be changed, you will lose friends, and so many other consequences just because you had sex one time! Condoms are not 100% effective so they can’t completely protect you from an STD so don’t think that you can escape getting one by wearing a rubber! The last reason to be abstinent is for the person you are going to marry. It is said that when you have sex with someone else before you were married with another person, the sex will not be as intimate because you already know what the feeling is and you will try to compare the feeling of your old sexual partner and your spouse. That will make your sexual life when you are married not as great as it should be! So, the only way to insure that you will have a happier, more fulfilling and safer life is if you are abstinent from sex!
Posted by Christian on May 4, 2009 under Peer Pressure, School and Friends |
Friends can have a positive or negative influence on your life which is why it is important to pick the correct friends. You will have to go through tons of peer pressure during your teen life on many different things. Things such as drugs, school, even how you act towards other people. I know I started hanging with the wrong people and they started rubbing off on me and I started not caring much about school and I started disobeying my parents because I was hanging around the wrong people. I’m now in 9th grade and have only been offered once to try a cigarette and the truth is, its extremely easy to say no! You just have to think ahead and tell yourself ahead of time what your morals are and what you will and will just not do. I do this all the time and it helps me make correct choices.
Posted by RiderzFan on April 29, 2009 under Teen Life |
Depression can be triggered many ways. Whether its death of a loved one, hard times at school, problems with friends… In todays world it is very easy to become depressed. Thats why we have to know how to cope with it. Depression happens to the best of us.
You need a constructive outlet for your emotions, just a way to get them out. Something like music, poetry, sports, any kind of activity helps really. Self harming is not constructive and does not help anything. Never resort to doing something like that. There is always a better way to deal with it. As you may know from my last post I had a stint with depression. Heres what I did…
I discovered music. Music is a great way to let your emotions out and they all end up coming together and making something beautiful. It really doesnt matter if your a good singer or not. Its not about being good. Its about having fun. After I wrote my first song I just felt a whole lot better about everything and felt like I had a reason to get up in the morning. Since then, music has become my life. I cant live without it.
Now, Maybe music is not for you. Thats fine. Sports are also a way to get emotions out. Nothing feels better than scoring that goal or making that perfect tackle. Another plus to sports is that as soon as you join a team you make 20 new friends automatically. Ii is a GREAT way to meet new close friends. Thats how me and most of my friends have met. Just have fun.
Doesnt have to be sports either… Could be models, Woodworking, graphic design, drawing… Any hobbies.
As bad as it the things around you seem to get. It will ALWAYS get better. Thats one of the things I have learned in my short life. It always gets better, I promise you. Time heals all wounds. But for now you just have to keep going. You will be a stronger man/woman when you break through the other side of depression.
I have a motto I kind of live by. “Strength is not about how much you can lift… Its about how much you can go through and keep going”
So just remember… keep your chin up, dont be afraid to smile (Even if you dont feel like it), and just have fun. The way I see it is, we are on this earth to have fun. Your here for a short time so enjoy it.
Thats all for now. I could probably write 3 pages for depression but I dont want to make this too long!
Goodluck!
Daniel.
Posted by RiderzFan on April 25, 2009 under Teen Life |
Hey everyone.
I thought I would make my first blog about dealing with your problems.
In my life, the most important lesson I have ever learned is never to run away from your problems, it just makes things worse… ALOT worse. First I will tell you my story and how I learned this lesson.
In the first semester of grade 9 my life was going great. I had a group of close friends, I was doing fairly well in school, I had a lot of confidence and everything just seemed to be going right. So that went on for awhile and then came semester two. I was having a few problems in my technology class, with some of the other students and the teacher. So I decided to skip a day… no big deal… right? Well pretty soon that day turned into a week and that week turned into a month. I did not go back to my class for an entire month because I was afraid to face my problems. While I was doing this I avoided my friends like they were the plague because I did not want to talk about it with them. I fell into deep depression and I was just lost. Eventually my principal phoned home and I was actually kind of glad he did because that meant I HAD TO go back.
The day I started going back to my classes (I ended up skipping a few classes) Was probably the worst day of my life… Though at the same time I knew it was the start of the rest of my life. Things with my friends have never been quite the same since then we just cant seem to talk like we used to. They kind of replaced me with some other people while I was gone. We still hang out occasionally but nothing like how I want. Im in grade 11 now and I am still feeling the outcome of my stupidity back then in some ways.
My life is great now and apparently im the happiest person my friends have ever met. But it tooka hell of a lot of work to bounce back from that. I never want to see anyone go through what I did.
So back to the point of the thread… NO MATTER HOW BIG YOUR PROBLEMS ARE. YOU HAVE TO FACE THEM. If you dont… things will snowball pretty quickly. I am almost glad that all of that happened to me. If it hadnt I would still probably be the coward I was and ran away from all of my problems.
You just have to force yourself to face your problems. As bad as it may seem at the time,but it could be a whole hell of a lot worse.
Hope that helps some of you… Tomorrow Ill post about dealing with depression.
Later,
Daniel
