teen pregnancy

    Strict parents are the parents who create trouble (not saying that they never did anything bad when they were young) , just that they are the reason some teens be getting pregnant. “You aren't allowed to date till your 18, don't talk to those to those boys”, little do they know when they hit the sheets these kids be sneaking out at midnight to see these boys. Birth control is the perfect way to prevent it, but why? Teenagers are too young to think about having sex. Sex, sex, sex. Back in the old days parents didn't have to worry about their teenage daughters coming home throwing up. They seemed to have more respect for themselves, than now (not saying that we don't respect ourselves now in days).
    Teen pregnancy is the way gossiping starts, “did you know shes a h**”, little do they know this girl did it for love. Birth control can mess up these girls bodies. To me, birth control is better than these kids getting pregnant and having a child that most likely their parents will not love because they'll think its a “mistake”.
    Why struggle with a baby, education and work? Put on a rubber (condom), close your legs and focus on education, and just listen to your parents.
    As a teenager, I know what is to have a kinda strict parent. She lets the leash sometimes loose and I don't disappoint her. I do good. I know if I ever got pregnant, she would be disappointed of me. A kid shouldn't know what being a disappointment is. But he should know what failing is. You catch the difference. Failing is something you can fix, well to us kids when we usually talk about failing, we think of grades and behaving better.
           Teenagers shouldn't even think about getting pregnant until they know how to wipe their butts and know how to clean the house. Simple as that. The problem is that teenagers are like monkeys curious to find things, like a big scavenger hunt with no ending.
         Let's go out.
         Have fun.
         While your gut says no, your mind says yes. "16 and pregnant", are the perfect show's to show the down effects of being pregnant in early ages isn't as perfect books and movies make it seem. Our lives aren't like The Jetsons, a happy family in outer space. Reality hits you. You faceplant against the cement as in Tom trying to catch Jerry in the show Tom and jerry.
          Teen pregnancy has become so popular that it is normal for us to walk in a restaurant and see a young couple eating. You just wonder what was going through their head. Its normal as just waking up and yawning that first thing morning.
            Little to know, we are just so use to this pregnancy, that in Hispanics and other races you expect them to be pregnant at the age of 16. Why can't it be white people too? Somehow its more on us poor people because we seem to want to be some ho**s.
           Bottom line is, we shouldn't do what percentages say we will become when we turn a certain age. We are better than pregnancy, drugs, jail and etc. We have to know what age everything is appropriate because sooner or later we will grow old disappointed if we ever did a mistake to change our lives forever.

love is a curse

                 Do you ever meet the most handsome guy ever and just stare drooling saliva out of the corner of your mouth? You love everything about him, until you find out he pulled you into the house of the devil. Love. What a mischievous thing to do, to a poor innocent girl. Don’t you think?
     When your mother doesn’t accept of your relationship with this guy, all you do is ask why? Mother knows why, she is just protecting us from the bowels of the devil, trying to pull us into the heat of love that will destroy ourselves if we fell for him. “He is my everything, I love him”, words from a teenager, or is it the devil possesing the teenagers body and making her say that and believe what she is saying. As if we fall into a 100 feet pool, drowning, we see people around us happy, we scream for help, but no one pays attention to us in pain. Seems to be depression to how I just described it to be.
    Okay, maybe love isnt that bad. Who am I kidding, it will literally eat your your self esteem once you break up. The person who made you feel like a queen, makes you feel like poop sitting on the grass on a long summer day.
            It wont happen again. I promise.
    I’m sorry.
            Why don’t we just prevent us from falling in this hole with no escape of love. I bet if we switched shoes, the pain wouldn’t be here. I really am sorry. It wont happen again. It isn’t like we can just put white out in every scar to make it blend in.
             If you happened to know teenagers end up falling in Love so much. Due to the feelings it won't happen again. Yupp, Love, is the Devil itself hidden in this costume of happiness. Why don't we just drop out of school because we think this person will stay with us forever and grow a family with them when they are just temporary. No ring on the finger, but honey it won't hurt to lose focus on everything for one person.
             Make this kid your world. It won't hurt. Start skipping school to see him, do drugs if he does them, start failing school, or why don't we just run away from a household that has all the support we need but take for granted cause we are focused on Love.
            No, I can't lose him.
            Being loved is being hated on. God brought this gift to earth to be supported through good and bad. But to my concerns when is failing a class or two cause you're out all night with this boy more important. Education shouldn't even exist, because most of us are going to take it for granted if we let love keep separating us from our goals. I think we should just bury all this books, drop out and destroy this schools to be with the one person we won't be with forever. Maybe.
              Sorry.
              Maybe, there should be a education system where we can get separated from this failure of love to people who want to actually achieve something. Education is poop now in days to teenagers because you only live once. Y.O.L.O. right? We should go back to living like Adam and Eve with little knowledge, all we knew was to grow up, have a family and work till we die. Now imagine a society like that. Peaceful. Or will it be?
              If we put all this effort for one kid, why not in work. Work seems to get money and food on the reach. Getting paid 7.50 is far from perfect because it's money either way. Imagine life would be perfect if we didn't have education. Yeah love is important. But getting that low wage money. Yes, that's even better. Having those 20 dollars extra after paying bills will definitely get us that spoiling feeling buying chips and a drink.
              But, I don't want to go to school.
               Once upon a time...a fairytale can make you dream into prince charming saving you. Is he really saving you from this earth that will only create problems. I say, burn this schools. We don't need them after all. We can make a living. Buying roman noodles, and water for a whole month with the person you love is perfect. Wait, I forgot, while living in a apartment with one bedroom late in rent two months.
           If you want that life. I assure you. Being focused only on love will get you there. Trust me love is wonderful. So if I were you, forget about school, money and find you some low wage love.

My Creed

  My first ever poem. At first it was hard knowing how to write a poem. How to rhyme, use literary devices, after i got started, I saw poetry wasn't all about rhymes, like we read in Dr. Seuss books.

I believe in prayer,
Yet destruction happens to the good.
I believe in falling in love is pure,
Although it leaves a scar.
I believe in magic,
Brings an image of youth in my head,
As a 5 year old running to my father's arm.
I believe in the first impressions,
Even tho sometimes the goodbyes are the most important.
I roam around for happiness,
It isn't easy I say.
Looking under the rocks isn't the ideal way to look for it.
My uncle was the happiness in me.
Not even a goodbye.
Just tears strolling down,
God hugged me, and whispered in my ear, everything will be okay.
I believe in midnight phone calls,
Shows the sweetness of a candy.
I believe in perfection,
Yet one little hair, can mess your first impression in meeting the love of your life.
I believe that the present builds upon your past,
Creating the person you never thought you could be.
I believe in the power of the music,
It can move cities with its inspiration acting upon us human beings.
It can help us do the right choices, prevent cuts, scars, and guide us to our call.
I believe in make-up,
To hide nights of solitude filled with worries, tears and regrets.
I believe in kisses can cease a contract.
I believe in romantic dates,
But opening the door of the car will make me fall in love.
I believe in "Sprite",
The fizzing in my throat after a long, sunny day,
Can improve my mood.
The pop sounds. Pop, pop, pop, all with a different symphonic noises added to it.
As if there speaking to me.
I believe in horoscopes
"Tell me the future"
Prevent myself from losing a family member.
To prevent to know what depression feels like.
Have the knowledge to understand what it is to not shed a tear.
Drop, after drop, sweep after sweep.
I believe in video games,
Makes me feel young.
Shows me how it feels to not be stressed.
I believe in fairy tales
Has me waiting patiently for my prince charming to sweep me of my feet.
I believe in dinosaurs,
There had to be something before us?
How can you trust, if you hurt me.
The trees speak, when the air blows through the leaves that seem as is its hair flowing in the wind.
Is it okay to be emotionally unstable?
I believe that life is fair,
It just doesn't affect one person, but a lot more.
Show me the path, to not make mistakes.
I believe in picture perfect,
Shows moments for my grandchildren to be inspired that me, as a teenager, was happy.
Not in happy about smiling, but took time off to be myself.
Not what my parents wanted.
But what I wanted to do with myself.
I don't believe in payback,
Because I don't carry remorse on my shoulders.
I believe in the color red,
Gives me the urge of excitement.
I believe in medicine,
Its able to heal the scars from the fallen.
The fallen.
Lord be my witness, I shall only do good. Never on purpose to make a mistake.
Pennies are the foundation of colleges.
Education is my belief system.
I believe the A.C. turned on is the summer in winter.
I believe without money we can do anything.
Yet, money is how we pay rent, go to college, and raise a family.
As soon I grabbed my moms hands, I said I believe.
And rode the roller coaster, without any fear.

Determination

                Allah, your in the middle of the sea, no one to be in touch with, all you can do is try to survive. You're there for months and yet you managed to live because somehow the determination is turning into survival. Sometimes the word we try to find to describe ourselves is "pretty, handsome...etc", the words we should be using are far more than that, some that we never thought that could describe a human being. As I am determination. Giving up isn't an option or is it when all you have done is failed? Only someone negative thinks like that. For I am invincible, because when I fall into my knees I get right back up and try, try, try again all because determination is the most propounding word with meaning that can be shown physically and emotionally.
          For any type of teenager school, and having a job is stressful. Some of them quit the job, as of my experience I haven't given up in working and managing school. But when I look up to my mother see the person I want to make proud of me, and I work even more harder to perceive the happiness of a daughter that determination has always guided her even thru the worst, because looking frontwards has more inspiration than looking backwards to the agony and suffering you went through.
         Always remember that determination is the key word to anything. Why you may ask? Well have you ever felt down? What made you keep going? What makes you smile now? All important questions to ask, but why? Well that boy that broke your heart, isn't as important now, because you were determined to forget about him. You set goals to make yourself happy for your own good and set an example slowly. Yes, determination was written all over those words.
         Once when you have achieved your goal, you feel all set in the mind, with the world. You feel as if you just won a race that yourself didn't think of you could be able to. It's like taking a bite of a donut freshly out of the oven that melts in your mouth because well it's so delicious. And I mean who doesn't love donuts right? It's like being able to smell the hot shower coming from after working in a sweaty, horrendous, sunny day. It's being able to sit, and watch tv with no disturbances or commercials. That, my friend, is how determination finishes off.

the little words count

                                                           The Little Words Count    
     We all have something or someone, guiding us to success, inspiring us, or just pushing us to the limits, exact same way we have a driving force. it might be a simple word with a lot of deep meaning in to it, but only we know why it is. After watching the "Ted" talk, I was wondering what was my driving force. When the teacher told us their was a quiz to find out what was our driving force I quickly went to the website and started the questions. Let me tell you the truth, it was boring answering about 90 questions, one, after, another. So less talking now, and more into my analysis,  I learned that my my number one driving force is growth, my second, love/connection.
       
         I got to admit, I was really surprised. Well, because, they described me in just some simple words. In growth, I'm always curious to learn more, expand my knowledge, and to see if by learning more my brain will expand like in the cartoons when they know to much, maybe even blow up. I'm a ordinary teenager that goes to school to turn into a somebody, and works to help out her mom with some small payments around the house. All this is sometimes, I mean all the time is pretty much stressful. Getting homework done, turning major works in on time, going to work that same afternoon and getting out around 10 p.m, so where's the sleep in all this? I really don't see it. But growth has impacted my determination to not give up, in contrary is has helped me to improve. On the low, sometimes i get to lazy to do my homework causing me to turn it in late and that negative things about school, but this driving force of "growth", has helped me not only to expand in knowledge, but to improve my time management, create new ideas in order to get my things ready for school, and to catch in some sleep I been missing out on.
       
          Now when it comes to people around me with their feelings out in the open, trust me I'm not a person to show what I'm feeling. I just smile to much if you know me, because a smile to anyone can enlighten their day a little. But for my second driving force to be "love/connection", I was literally with my jaw to the floor. Then I think, love and connection don't have to be about feelings, but about feeling appreciated, making people love them and just feel a connection with anyone, now to my recall that is so me. I love being the center of the attention, I like to feel like if people notice me and know who I am. In my quinceañera (Mexican tradition, showing the girl is turning into a women) I loved the feeling of million eyes on me. My family was all over me, my friends, you can say I'm self-centered, but that word to me is being selfish, but that's not me. I just like feeling loved, having a close bonding with everyone and making sure they know their loved for too.

       My driving forces have helped me in my reading life because they make me want to explore the outside world, to become connected with everyone around me. I've started reading some fiction books to challenge me, their vocabulary is HUGE, but it doesn't hurt to improve on my English, since English is my second language, and besides I'm still growing, so my improvement, and being able to read more tough books is good. When I read, I feel as if I'm connected to the characters, some are very touching to the heart, makes you want to be a little like them in being able to perceive something, or just learn a lesson. In my sophomore year, I barely read about 2 books and only because those books were required. Now, when Mrs. Rassmusen told us this year we have to do a lot of reading I was, well, disgusted of the idea of reading. I guess someone sprinkled some magic powder because I have read about 7 books, since starting this junior year. Did you see my driving forces were always with me, even before I knew there was driving forces? I barely noticed it right now.

     My very favorite book I've read was Perfect Chemistry. A perfect book about how to people from way opposite economic livings, fell in love with each other. This book has me so interested, it was impossible for me to put the book down, somehow I was able to bond with the guy character of this book, because well some of us don't have a really pretty life. The hardest book I've read was probably, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. This book was non-fiction, my reading process was slowed down, because it was really complicated to read, with the big vocabulary words and the text was dry, no imagination. Overall, I have been transformed into a very successful reader this year and hope to still be one.

      The book I'm reading is named, The Namesake. This book has a way different type of culture within it. The characters come from India. Ashami, she is a be loving mother, afraid of her first born baby, scared of a new life. Now, this can be seen ALL around the world. Even our own mother has gone through the same problem as Ashami. But, she can't call her husband by his real name. Something we don't see in the U.S.A. Yet, as the Indian culture and everywhere else in the world, we are very profound of our religion beliefs, culture and the way we think. No matter where we come from we all have one similar thing, that is religion. that helps us in the worst times, and makes us have the good times.

Risk or watching the news

Risk of watching the news.

         Watching the news has been so normal for us. We find new information, capture interesting stories and learn more about what's going around the world. Most of the information they give us now is how a certain event affected the family. Do we really care about the family? Or are we just nosy people? Irrelevant information is given out more than the actual important information. We tend to use our emotions when we watch the news then our knowledge. Scientist are starting to say that not watching the news will start making us happier.

         The misperception of a car falling of a fallen apart bridge makes us be more preoccupied of the car and the family then the actual bridge. Yes we should all be worried about the family. But the car isn't really important. Like of it was a Honda people would just start being like "I'm not buying that car, their brakes don't work." When that was a human mistake. What about the bridge? That was a human mistake too. We get scared to buy the type of car when we should've been worried about the real problem which is our society.

           Sometimes it isn't the fact that care, just that showing that we care shows off a good impression to other people. While we watch the news, we apply emotions, "how tragic is that", "I feel sorry", come one people we need to apply KNOWLEDGE!! Yes, some cases are heart touching, but omg(oh my god) use that brain. You see a family lost there house, due to a fire. You seem more sad about the family losses, then instead trying to make a difference, in order to prevent it from happening or to help them out get back on there feet, after all it might happen to you.

            Your sitting there watching the news, now a days all you see is bad, negative things happening around the world. Which makes you think and worry about the problems around the world, which at the end of the day makes you overthink. Overthinking is bad to the health, it makes you worry about non-sense, well not exactly non-sense. Yet scientist are saying not watching the news makes you way lot happier with your life's.

             At the end of the day, watching cartoons is better. They bring fun, joy, sadness, but they don't make you have a misperception about the world and it's problems. We can't control the people to watch the news or not to watch. Sometimes your going to just be able to accept the ways the news makes you feel.


         

Bullying

             Bullying has became a number one conflict through all the United States, might as well say the world. Everyone has gotten bullied at least once in there whole life time or in the life they lived. It's sad to think about, but it's true. Sometimes the youngest kids kill themselves because they think that's there only way out. Why can't we say no to bullying as of they're drugs getting offered to us? If we stand up for someone getting bullied, we would end up being the aggressor, and get blamed for it.

            There's three types of bullying which is verbally, mentally, and physically. They can go from laughing about the "joke", to crying because the words you said about them actually hurt them in a way. "No harm, no foul", actually anything can be harmful is just how the person takes it, either to the heart, or pushes it to the back. We usually do the harm without even noticing the pain we might be causing the people. "Your fat", "Your ugly" simple as those words can be, they literally can distortion someone's self-esteem.

              I once encountered a bullying problem at my middle school, this boy was getting bullied thankfully someone went up to the aggressor and fronted him to stop bullying the boy, it turned out to be a fight, but the boy who stood up for the little kid got the minor disciplinary action but the other one, let's say we didn't see him at school till months later. Sometimes the right thing is done, other times we the people act as were blinded and don't turn to help, either because we don't want to get the problems faced toward us or due to the fact we want to be blinded and mind our own business.

              In the news, "It was last week when Shimizu killed himself after having been bullied. Last year, he was the only boy on his cheerleading squad.", now you see bullying has caused innocent people with bright futures to kill themselves just because they do as what there dreams are set for. So what if he was in the cheerleading squad? I bet he was standing up for what he loved, and due to what he loved, it ended up with his life. I wonder how his family is feeling, it's so tragic what happened.

      At the end of the day, bullying is a nationwide problem. It can't be stopped, yet we can prevent it. We can stand up for what's right, and make all the actions we can to beat the system. No life's should be lost because of bullying. Not at all. We can just keep them in our prayers to one day be able to fully stop bullying.