I’ve been reflecting on how horrible teenagers can be. Here’s a quick pen portrait.
Teenagers find it very difficult to believe that the world does not revolve around them. They live in a self-regarding bubble, and cannot for the life of them see why things shouldn’t be organized for their convenience. They are quite happy to take, but reluctant to give. And although they do a lot of taking (and others do a lot of giving) words of thanksgiving are rarely on their lips.
Although their parents gave them birth, and have provided them with basically everything ever since, they really would prefer them to butt out and leave them alone. Teenagers want to live as they please. They avoid their parents where possible, keeping interaction to the minimum that is required to get what they want. And although their parents might actually be intelligent people, and live full and satisfying lives, yet to teenagers, parents are outdated and embarrassing; an encumbrance barely to be tolerated.
Does anyone recognize the species?
Seems to me it describes all of us perfectly, vis a vis God.
