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You’re about to enter a very peculiar patch in your life chronology. Your teen years will be soiled by confusion, hurt, love and hormonal rage. Teen years are a Tuaking effluvia of new feels that will test the patience you have for yourself and the world.

:hen you get to high school, that will be the first taste of real life – to a certain e[tent. You will struggle, lose yourself and betray yourself.

You will be depressed, even hate learning on some days, your skin will break out with pimples in the most awkward places on your face, the very week you had finally psyched yourself up to finally tell your crush how you feel.

You will try and you will fail. They will tease you about your smoky eyes or that you’re soft.

%ut keep at it, you’re a king and that’s the first directive encoded in your '1$, to replicate royalty. Your teenage angst will wear you down and you will find solace in books, music and imaginings of another world.

Embarrasse­d

You will like things you’re embarrasse­d to tell your friends about because they’ll think you are weird. (mbrace the uncool fast, its okay. 3eople resonate with authentici­ty, so make it easy on yourself and chill out.

Then it gets cra]y messy when you fall in love for the first time. There will be searing perple[ity, because it will be a foreign feeling.

$ feeling that feels good; a feeling you have been taught to doubt and Tuestion. This love will taint every thought, wet your every word. You will build a shrine to this love and adorn it with every moment spent with your first love.

Heartbreak

:hen the heartbreak storms in, it will destroy your shrine with a burning vengeance, your world will shake, your heart constantly caught in your throat.

You will be fine and after a while, you get used to the pain. ,t becomes your muse, your constant companion, an armour you wear with fervent pride. , urge you to free yourself of this mentality; stop loving people who will only reinforce your fears of loss and reMection.

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