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[bikinisweetie89]

okaaaay so i have like 5 minutes to write. i really just wanted to post something, not that like all these people are reading my lj or whatever... but regardless. so i was thinknig about something mrs brady said, about how teenagers tend to have these depressive sides. clearly i'm not alone when i'm really upset about something, but it always seems

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That makes sense. But you are categorizing people by their natures:('There are individuals who are simply resilient and cheerful by nature'). What I am trying to say is that there is no 'simply resilient' and there is no 'cheerful.' There are hints of all of those things in all personalities, but some are more expressed than others.
In SOME cases, such thoughts show maturity. However, we are not yet mature. We do not have the life experience to even categorize our own thoughts as mature, because we do not have a perfect idea of what mature is yet. Mrs. Brady's statement was a blanket statement, which of course could not be applied to every single teenager. But as you said, a lot of teenagers have 'pathetic' tendencies, and these individuals would commonly enjoy becoming engrossed in that poetry.

I still think that every teenager has a depressive side. And I think that most people will grow out of this mental confusion once they reach adulthood. Whether it is a noticeable depressive side or not, I think we all have one. I think Mrs. Brady was warning us against taking these hints of depression too far becoming the typical teenager who loves to swim in self pity and read Sylvia Plath. If you can find me one person who is simply cheerful and resilient by nature and never questions him/herself, the reasons for events, the reason for existence, etc., then I think your point will be proven. Until then, because of our multi-faceted natures, I will believe that most everyone has some kind of undeniably depressive side.

Oh Caitlin I love the fact that our argumentative natures surface so often... And this is exactly what I mean...everyone has certain tendencies which come out at certain times...depression is just one that happens to come out significantly more in teenagers.

...I think you know who wrote it.

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K so, Caitlin still disagrees with you.

Thanks for that bit of mental stimulation, though. Practice for MT, maybe?
SORRY AGAIN, JENNY. This is my last comment, I swearrr.