Change Your Mind to Change Your Life

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As teenagers, we look at our lives and our choices. Ever so often we make the wrong choice, by either being influenced by others or by influencing others. In the heat of the moment, we often refuse to make the hard right choice. We’d rather make the much easier choice which is, in most cases, the wrong one. We tend to live in the moment and let ourselves get carried away, getting involved in the use of drugs, alcohol and other such activities, which not harm us, but also harm those around us. At first, when things seem to be going our way, we enjoy it. Then it begins to go downhill, we then stop to ask ourselves the million dollar question, “Why? Why is everything going downhill?” We keep doing the same thing and expect things to get better. Well it’s because of these choices along with the choice to live in the moment and not prepare for the future. Therefore, we need to change our minds to change our lives and realize that the key to success is preparation. We are considered to be a lost generation and we continue to this through the choices we make. Most of us tell ourselves that we are own bosses and no one but us knows what is best for us. It is this little perception that keeps poisoning our young minds and that is what requires changing. As teenagers, most of us listen to our so called friend’s bad advices and treat them as though they are gold, while we discard our parent’s and teacher’s good advices as though they are garbage. When in reality, it should be the other way around. What makes it worse is that we then go on to influence our younger brothers and sisters to believe and practice the same things we do. Here, my fellow teens, is where we need to rise up to the occasion and realize that we are tomorrow’s future and also realize that the only way that can be a bright one is by making that change today. We need to take a stand, fight ourselves and

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