The one thing we all know yet never remember: Being a teenager is hard

Now i'm approaching the latter half of my teenage years I am starting to realize one or two things. Every living person becomes a teenager at some point in their life and as you get older many people laugh about their "teenage years" and try to push aside their mistakes which everyone makes when hormones take over our brains and put it into overdrive.

Yet everyone stereotypes teenagers to be this misbehaving annoying and angry group in our society that we should all be aware of. But everyone seems to forget that you were once part of this group in society and now you are an adult and condoning a minority and exaggerating it to the majority.

I remember a few occasions when I've popped out to the shops in a hoodie and jeans in the cold with my hood up and people have crossed the road to get away from me? I honest to god am the least harmful person you will come across on the planet, i get so upset if I've even accidentally hurt someone in any form. Yet those people crossed the road to get away from me?

Being a teenager is hard that is a fact, no one knows what they want and you think everyone is against you blah blah everyone's heard of the typical characteristics of puberty and teenagehood before its nothing new.

Yet why condone being a typical teenager? Everyone goes through it, every girl understands what a 11-14 year old girl is going through when she first gets her period and the hormones which make her cry over nothing. Every man understands the pressure of boys to look cool and get girls even if its not the kind of person they want to be.

I'm not saying to let every teenager get away with a tantrum which hurts peoples feelings or if they do something which is horrific and blame their hormones on it. I'm simply saying if you know a young girl or boy who is angry at you for something you haven't done or is changing who they are because of something or someone they know, don't be too harsh.

They are only human and one day (hopefully) the majority of them will become beautiful human beings who will one day maybe have their own teenagers to look after and deal with their tempers.