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rather insignificant. outside, they also create change, and life will
That's what makes us changes on the inside. most certainly offer you
human— we all have While your body is things you are truly
qualities that make us adjusting to all the new meant to do. To those
unique, on the inside hormones, so is your adolescents who fear
and the outside. It is mind. Throughout your change… Changes are
extremely important to teenage, you might feel an extremely important
have a good peer group confused or have strong part of growing up.
and avoid any sort of emotions that you've Always remember that
negative company never experienced even the most majestic
during your teenage, before. You may feel butterfly underwent
probably the most anxious about how your metamorphosis before it
vulnerable period of changing body looks. could fly! Every
your life, as peers are You might feel overly beautiful flower was
the ones who have the sensitive or become once a rather ordinary
most significant easily upset. Some looking bud before it
influence on your state teens lose their temper bloomed! Yes, you're
of mind and eventually more than usual having right, this phase of your
on your personality. sudden bursts of life is exactly that! A
Another integral part of uncontrollable rage at rather unsettling yet
adolescence is change. times. Sometimes it can safe cocoon that'll
Dealing with changes is be difficult to deal with prepare you to face the

indeed challenging, and all of these new real world! You might
it gets exponentially emotions. At times, it lose something good in
tougher during teenage, might not be your the process, but you are
where changes seem family or friends most likely to gain
unending. While there getting on your something even better.
are instances when, as nerves— it might just So hang on, you're not
teenagers, you try your be your, "adolescent the only one facing the
level best to hold onto brain," trying to adjust. turbulent storms! Every
what you were as a While the adjustment human fights these
child, there are can feel difficult in the battles and trust me,
moments when you beginning, it gradually with time, you'll
yourself fight to let go becomes easier. definitely emerge as a
of what you once were. People, places, and better human than what
Just as hormones create feelings always change you once were!
changes in the way your so it's best not to resist
body looks on the
these changes. Embrace

Vini Desai, studying in class 11B, is an avid reader with a strong affinity
towards utopian and dystopian fiction, fantasy, and mythological
fiction. She has read the Harry Potter series a whooping forty-one times.
An overtly inquisitive and excited human since childhood, Vini embraces
every opportunity she gets, leaving no stone unturned!

Photograph: Meera Patel