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They say life as a teen is a roller coaster. It is. Each one says life is extremely complicated and you'd have to be them to understand. That's true. And yet, in the complexity of life, everyone, at one point or another is able to see through it and find simplicity in it. We teens have more in common than a lot of them would like to admit. Life is hard for us, as we are still adjusting to a transition from being treated like royalty to having to do things by ourselves and at the same time we are adjusting we are also wanting to be like the adults we aren't yet.
My name is Stephanie Coronado. My life is pretty simple in my eyes, even though it is like the common complicated teenager life that everyone seems to be partaking in. I am Canadian with a Peruvian family living in the U.S. Some might think this a hard combination to deal with, but really it's not, seeing as Miami (where I've lived a major part of my life) is composed of mainly Hispanic immigrants that have grown up with similar morals, values, and traditions my parents have grown up with.
Miami life is a quick one. If you are trudging through life in Miami, you will probably be run over by the next generation's race to adulthood. You rarely see teenagers taking a break from their daily doings to sit in a hammock, let's say, and appreciate the beauty of the day. We do not do "Carpe Diem." Rather, in Miami, we live by the motto "Grab life by the horns."
We seem to instinctively need to be occupied. A day watching the clouds go by is what a teen here in Miami needs, or a day spent quietly in Nature just lying there, and trying to absorb the peace of the surrounding ambient.
My life is as hectic as any other kid my age here, I believe. I'm running every moment to someplace new and can never seem to find the time to just look through my old stuff, such as photographs of my childhood, or my old diaries. I don't have as much free time as I wished i did, and when I do sit down to relax, I feel like I am wasting valuable time doing absolutely nothing.
An ordinary day goes something like this: I wake up, go to school, get home at 5:30, go to the gym, do my homework, chat with my friends,and go to sleep. The weekend I go out once or twice, do homework, clean the house, spend lots of quality time with my family, and get ready for school. Although my life seems pretty simple and straightforward, each day is a trial, a challenge, an adventure. I am dealing with changes in friendships, with trials in teenage love, and with problems about "dominance" of my life with my parents. Typical and yet also unique, my life definitely cannot be confused with someone else's. I find the simplicity in life in that it is my own, I have made it this way, and I can change it when I like.
My life is simple, there is not much that needs to be changed in it. I live with a spanish family in a mainly Spanish community, and get along great with my parent. We have traditions we just can't break in the family, we have understandings and everlasting bonds that have taken us years to fortify. We go to Church every Sunday (a rapidly declining tradition in many other families' lives), go to my uncle's house to spend some time with the family, and go back to our won house to do our work. There's not much to my life to understand, except that for the most part I have much in common with everything you might have heard that a teenager does in a place like Miami and yet am still able to find uniqueness in the way I live my life. I am content and satisfied, and always with a desire to explore and move along.
And now I close this glimpse into my life.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Coronado
They say life as a teen is a roller coaster. It is. Each one says life is extremely complicated and you'd have to be them to understand. That's true. And yet, in the complexity of life, everyone, at one point or another is able to see through it and find simplicity in it. We teens have more in common than a lot of them would like to admit. Life is hard for us, as we are still adjusting to a transition from being treated like royalty to having to do things by ourselves and at the same time we are adjusting we are also wanting to be like the adults we aren't yet.
My name is Stephanie Coronado. My life is pretty simple in my eyes, even though it is like the common complicated teenager life that everyone seems to be partaking in. I am Canadian with a Peruvian family living in the U.S. Some might think this a hard combination to deal with, but really it's not, seeing as Miami (where I've lived a major part of my life) is composed of mainly Hispanic immigrants that have grown up with similar morals, values, and traditions my parents have grown up with.
Miami life is a quick one. If you are trudging through life in Miami, you will probably be run over by the next generation's race to adulthood. You rarely see teenagers taking a break from their daily doings to sit in a hammock, let's say, and appreciate the beauty of the day. We do not do "Carpe Diem." Rather, in Miami, we live by the motto "Grab life by the horns."
We seem to instinctively need to be occupied. A day watching the clouds go by is what a teen here in Miami needs, or a day spent quietly in Nature just lying there, and trying to absorb the peace of the surrounding ambient.
My life is as hectic as any other kid my age here, I believe. I'm running every moment to someplace new and can never seem to find the time to just look through my old stuff, such as photographs of my childhood, or my old diaries. I don't have as much free time as I wished i did, and when I do sit down to relax, I feel like I am wasting valuable time doing absolutely nothing.
An ordinary day goes something like this: I wake up, go to school, get home at 5:30, go to the gym, do my homework, chat with my friends,and go to sleep. The weekend I go out once or twice, do homework, clean the house, spend lots of quality time with my family, and get ready for school. Although my life seems pretty simple and straightforward, each day is a trial, a challenge, an adventure. I am dealing with changes in friendships, with trials in teenage love, and with problems about "dominance" of my life with my parents. Typical and yet also unique, my life definitely cannot be confused with someone else's. I find the simplicity in life in that it is my own, I have made it this way, and I can change it when I like.
My life is simple, there is not much that needs to be changed in it. I live with a spanish family in a mainly Spanish community, and get along great with my parent. We have traditions we just can't break in the family, we have understandings and everlasting bonds that have taken us years to fortify. We go to Church every Sunday (a rapidly declining tradition in many other families' lives), go to my uncle's house to spend some time with the family, and go back to our won house to do our work. There's not much to my life to understand, except that for the most part I have much in common with everything you might have heard that a teenager does in a place like Miami and yet am still able to find uniqueness in the way I live my life. I am content and satisfied, and always with a desire to explore and move along.
And now I close this glimpse into my life.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Coronado