The coming of age process will cause most youths to have the feeling of angst. Angst is a deep feeling of anxiety, malaise and fear. I believe the feeling of angst is obliged in youth, because it will help them discover who they are. In general I think angst starts in the begging of high school. Depending on how you adjust from elementary school to high school. The feeling of angst can eat you alive. Leaving from elementary to begin high school you never know what to expect. Most kids before that start high school think its as stereo typical as in movies. Most of us all know the movie; high school musical, where they are all divided into clicks on their lunch hour. Teenager might believe that high school is like that. All kids have there own reason on why feel anxious or scared. I know that my reason when I stared high school was because I didn't like girls in general. I grew up play fighting with my dad and playing soccer. I remember my first day in high school, girls were already trash talking one another and I thought to myself “these girls are nuts”. Later on that year I made plenty of friends but I soon realized that I was becoming like those girls that would trash talk.
In high school the feeling of belonging and not being an outsider is what every teenager wants. This feeling can be so strong that it can make teenagers change. It can change there attitude, there way of thinking even to go as far as changing there own principals. For example: when kids are younger and were never introduced to smoking as a positive action, most of them will think that smoking is disgusting and they will swear to themselves they would never do such thing. Although most teenagers know that smoking isn't good for their health, they will still try it because they want to be “cool” like the other kids who smoke.
Another thing that kids can have anxiety over is not knowing who to turn to. Has it ever happen to you that you are in a embarrassing situation and you do not know who to talk to ? Obviously most kids will not go to their parents because they are scared of their judgement, they wont turn to a teacher because that would be tattle-tailing. Most of them think that they do not have an adult who will understand them and help them. Usually teenagers will turn to their friends for advice, but lets be honest right now, teenagers don't always give the best advice and sometimes they are missing a lack of judgement. All this to say that angst most of the time isn't a positive feeling but its an necessity in the coming of age process between teenage years and adulthood.
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