Will's Reflection
Life is truly about learning from mistakes made in the attempt to overcome obstacles. The teenager is a person within society that really must master the art of going over obstacles in order to move forward in life. Throughout the completion of the manifesto, many different obstacles or speed bumps that might occur in a teenagers life popped into view. There is always the choice of choosing to follow the many negative connotations placed on teenagers by literature, but that is just another obstacle within life that the teenager has to over come. The journey is definitely not easy, as displayed within Siddhartha, but in order to truly reach a purpose in life, obstacles must be overcome. Such as literature displayed, the teenager can go either way, becoming a successful, thriving, mature adult or try to cling to the remanence of the innocence of child hood. The manifesto states that the teenager wants to still cling to childhood, but life gets in the way forcing maturity and growth. For one, teenage life is meant to be a game of struggle and challenge, because through the experience of overcoming such troubles, the adolescent will grow into an adult ready for the challenges of adult life. Teens may think beyond the literature, thinking themselves better then what literature presents, but the truth is that this is the sort of behavior literature presents. When obstacles stare a teenager right in the face, most of the time the squeeze their way out of the situation, hoping to avoid the challenge. In my life as a teen, I personally must face many obstacles and overcome them. I personally will move forward within my own life and attempt to over come every obstacle that I face. There is definitely a pattern within my own life in having the ability to choose to act childish and devolve to what literature says I am, or choose the mature and experienced path and face the obstacle and over come it on my own. Teenage life is an bombardment of challenges some succumb to pressure as presented in literature and others triumph moving into a life of maturity and experience.