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    This document is a reflection on the essay "Making the Best and Most out of Adolescence". It summarizes that the essay focuses on shining light on the fears and true feelings of being a teenager, revealing that teenagers are individuals who are everything and nothing all at once. It describes adolescence as a messy time of new feelings, dreams, and existential crises, but also a time of learning independence and saying farewell in order to pursue dreams. The reflection concludes that making the best of adolescence is to simply go with the waves of growing up.

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    Never Grow Up Essay

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    Christine Tipan
    This document is a reflection on the essay "Making the Best and Most out of Adolescence". It summarizes that the essay focuses on shining light on the fears and true feelings of being a teenager, revealing that teenagers are individuals who are everything and nothing all at once. It describes adolescence as a messy time of new feelings, dreams, and existential crises, but also a time of learning independence and saying farewell in order to pursue dreams. The reflection concludes that making the best of adolescence is to simply go with the waves of growing up.

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    TIPAN, CHRISTINE JADE D.

    DEAR HOUR
    10 – PASCAL

    Never Grow Up
    A reflection on the essay, “Making the Best and Most out of Adolescence” by Alliyah Jereza

    “Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up.” If there was one wish or message that

    could relay the sentiments of growing up, no other saying could beat this line from

    Taylor Swift’s song as she sends a song of love to every teenager whose ears are

    open.

    Whether it be an early morning with pancakes and milk, the first birthday

    when we received our very first Barbie doll, the embarrassment from a silly thing we

    did in kindergarten, the first time our hearts broke from the rejection of our crushes,

    and the first time Cupid’s arrow struck our hearts, one thing can never be denied: our

    teenage years are love letters to adolescence. In Alliyah Jereza’s essay tackling the

    hardships and core values of teens, the most evident and greatest image formed is

    that teenagers are ironic creatures bound to grow and lose control. Contrary to the

    author’s title, “Making the Best and Most out of Adolescence," she instead,

    surprisingly, focuses on shining light and opening the curtains to unveil the fears and

    true feelings of being a teenager. With light shining upon something unseen, we

    discover that teenagers are individuals who are everything and nothing all at

    once.

    “I wish I'd never grown up.” Girlhood and boyhood are definitely messy years

    in our lives where we recognize new feelings and deal with ever-changing

    circumstances. It is a chapter of imagination and dreams with sprinkles of existential

    crises as we ponder our lives a decade from now. These years are similar to a vast

    ocean, filled with unfamiliarity and fear. It is an endeavor where we can start with
    ignited fire and full speed only to end up with a halt and with eyes full of tears.

    However, it’s also a time when we learn that we’re alone, in a good way. These are

    times when we cringe at our past and grieve over what we’ve lost but celebrate new

    beginnings. It is a time to forgive ourselves for things we regret doing to our loved

    ones, as we were so innocent and easily shaped by mischievous people. It’s a time

    of saying farewell as we travel to another part of the world, far away from Dad’s

    chicken adobo, only to pursue our greatest dreams so we can finally go to Paris.

    Above all, it’s a stage of accepting that we can never control everything, as we’re not

    gods, but we can only befriend what we hold dearly—our hearts.

    With this, we can accept fear and allow it to be friends with courage, as there

    is something else more important than fear, and that is the greatest truth we’ve ever

    known. As the readers of the essay try to “make that little kid, who they put aside so

    many times, proud," making the best out of adolescence is to simply go with the

    waves of girlhood and boyhood. Thus, we must first grace forward by saying,

    “Oh, darlin', it’s okay to grow up.”

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