A little good from a little bad

Teenagers; one of the most misunderstood species out there. It has appeared to me that adults think that because we are young we are always up to no good and are all extremely clueless people. To be honest there is nothing worse than constantly being judged everywhere you go, on everything you do. Yeah, I may be a teenager, but that doesn't mean that I'm some crazy hooligan.

 I think that almost every teen would agree that they are very rarely ever taken serious. For instance when you walk into the grocery story with a group of friends compared to if you walked in with your mom you get a totally different vibe. When with your friends most all the workers eye you down and think were messing around and up to no good to where as if we were with our parents, the workers would most likely come up to you and ask if you perhaps maybe needed some help finding something or just simply get a nice hello. But nope when it’s me and my friends all we get are glares and it seems that all eyes are on us waiting for us to do something horrible because if you didn't get the news flash: we're all trouble makers and can never do anything right. 

I mean, yeah some teens ARE bad kids but that doesn't give adults the right to categorize us as a big group of kids that are always up to no good. Think about it there are adults that go around killing people, so does that mean that I should go around and say that every adult is a murderer? No, it doesn't because I was taught that you shouldn't judge or label someone based on the way that they look or act. 

Last week at a high school basketball game there was an incident that appeared to me as kind of proving the whole idea and notion that teenagers are a big group of careless and rude people. 

At this game it was said by a mom at the game that these high school student were "bullying" and older disabled woman. This story was kind of a he-said-she-said kind of story, but the way the daughter of the elderly woman handled it was i would say, very childish and not appropriate....what so ever. This woman posted a huge paragraph about it on Facebook saying how rude these students were to this elderly woman. I mean yes i see both sides, but the students had politely asked the woman to move because they knew that they were going to be getting a bit rowdy, and didn't want to disturb her viewing of the game. With that being said the daughter found this as a very rude gesture, but the students were in there designated area that the school had given them, so technically they weren't doing anything wrong except for trying to help this elderly woman to enjoy the game instead of being disturbed by obnoxious teens trying to cheer there team to victory.

On the other hand i see where the idea of them coming off as rude is coming from, but i think the way this lady handled this situation by yelling at Washington High Schools principal, and the the way she treated the students was very uncalled for. As seen in the story above the student who had flicked off the camera said that if he had to go back and redo the whole situation, he would've handled it a different way, but in the heat of the moment he was frustrated and does regret and apologizes for his actions. 

As shown above by the students reaction and how we would handle it differently if he had to go back, it shows that maybe teens shouldn't always be punished for their actions. I mean yeah, they should be told and taught what is right from wrong, but they shouldn't be bashed for there mistakes. If anything they should be given a pat on the back for learning and getting something out of each bad situation they are in. 

Being a teenager isn't all about trying to be the best person you can and trying to please everyone. Its the time for you to make these mistakes and learn from them. So before you go onto judge someone, don't judge them based on their age or who they're hanging around with, look at them as an individual. Society needs to take a step back and have a reality check and realize that bashing people isn't always the right way to handle things, but maybe realizing there is some good coming out of these semi-bad situations.