Challenges Teens Face Today

       Most teens are very smart but when it comes to peer pressure most give in and choose the wrong. During this time, teens go through overwhelming external and internal struggles.Several major challenges teens face today are self esteem, body image depression, drugs, alcohol, under age sex, bullying (cyber), stress, etc. Nowadays a guy wants a pretty skinny, nice figure girls, and on social media people are influenced by girls and they try to be like them. Social media is a big challenge because on it everyone pretends to be someone they aren't.  Something I deal  with are school & stress. Some people expect so much from you they, expect you to be perfect and you try to be it to please them till you're so fed up with it and you stop. You stop and take time to make sure to love yourself because there's no such thing better than self love. Being a CTR person helps because you get to see yourself as a better person. CTR is choosing the right therefore saying you are a CTR person helps because you make sure to think before you act. I can help other teens by talking to them I can help them out if they have a problem and  I know there is something I can do to change.

      The greatest need that teens have is to be loved and to find purpose in life. I believe this because with out having or seeing a purpose in living you find everything boring. By not finding a purpose in life you see everything as bad when in reality it's not. A  teen needs love. A teen needs to learn how to accept them self even if others don't by loving yourself. When you learn to love yourself you won't care what others think or say and they will start seeing you for who you are.