pastpresentfuture.

We are teenagers. We are the ones with unused potential, with untapped energy. We are the ones with boundless imaginations, the ones who still hold tight the idealism that governs our thoughts.

We have years and years and years of life stretching out before us. What we do with those years, though, may depend on what dreams take flight in us. We are the key to the future.

We are today's future. We are the embodiment of the past, the adults-to-be of the present, the hope of the tomorrows yet to come. Do not underestimate us--and do not let us underestimate ourselves.

Life goes on.

No matter what's happening, life doesn't stop. It's funny, when you think about it. When you're deliriously happy, life goes on, and eventually that happiness ends. And when you're hopelessly unhappy, life goes on, and at some point you are not sad anymore.

Life goes on. Feelings change. Honestly, pretty much everything changes, because try as we might... we can't stop time.

Read.

Tumble down, down, down, into a world you've never seen before. Watch as your imagination builds a nation, brick by brick, as your mind crafts the face of a man or woman, as your heart becomes the heart of the protagonist. Because when you read, you lose yourself for a while. You become the main character of whatever book you're reading, whether you're casting spells or fighting battles or falling in love. Whether you've done it before or not, you experience it all.

To read is to catch a glimpse into another world. To read is to expand the horizons of your imagination, and to broaden the reaches of your mind. To read, in short, is to grow.

Go.

Do things that scare you--because afterwards, they will not scare you. We, as humans, fear the unknown. We fear not being in control, not knowing what will happen next. We are afraid of being afraid--of putting ourselves in a position where we do not know what the outcome will be. We value the comfort that comes from knowing exactly what will happen at any given time. But sometimes, it doesn't do to hold on to that desire for comfort. After all, how else will you grow? Learn? You do not become a better person by waiting for experience to come to you. Instead, you go to where you will gain experience.

Do things that scare you. Do things that you've never done before. Push yourself. And become a better person through it.