At a young age, your mindset is as seen. But does this mindset change anywhere along your teenage years?

Should You Suck It Up?

NO! Everyone tends to have that one friend that you seem to care for so much, whose crap you withold because you have hopes they'll change for the better, whose words harm you but you straigthen up and push the motorboat on. These things are wrong. Now a days people take advantage of noble, giving hearts to satisfy themselves by treating others wrongly in ways they don't deserve to be treated. i know many people, including myself, who have set aside their feelings of hurt to support a friend who has self-esteem issues and think of others as lower than them to make them feel higher. I stood next to a person like this for a while until this began affcting me. Do not let anyone treat you any less than what you deserve, there are always people who would want to be as ego stable as you and cant for a variety of reasons. This doesn't signify that you should back off, and leave a friend because of a single mistake or a couple but if it surpasses a limit you shouldn't submitt yourself to such treatment. Take wise descisions, for what you do affects both your friend and you.

BACTERIA ALERT!

Alright, so there has been a wide alert on the Strepthroat virus which has presumably affected milions of throats worldwide. I was diagnosed Strep throat positive, which is a fancy "doctor-unfriendly" word to say i've got it! Here is some bassic input from an article published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" that provides background knowlage on the funking sounding bacteria, symptoms and some other interesting facts on its confusing neighbor, the SORE THROAT! muahaha. Enjoy.

Strep throat is very common among kids and teens. Symptoms of strep throat include fever, stomach pain, and red, swollen tonsils.Strep throat usually requires treatment with antibiotics. With the proper medical care — along with plenty of rest and fluids — your child should be back to school and play within a few days.

How Strep Throat Spreads
Anybody can get strep throat, but it's most common in school-age kids and teens. These infections occur most often during the school year when big groups of kids and teens are in close quarters.
The bacteria that cause strep throat (group A streptococcus) tend to hang out in the nose and throat, so normal activities like sneezing, coughing, or shaking hands can easily spread infection from one person to another.
That's why it's so important to teach kids the importance of hand washing — good hygiene can lessen their chances of getting contagious diseases like strep throat.

Strep Throat vs. Sore Throat
Not all sore throats are strep throats. Most episodes of sore throat — which can be accompanied by a runny nose, cough, hoarseness, and red eyes — are caused by viruses and usually clear up on their own without medical treatment.
A child with strep throat will start to develop other symptoms within about 3 days, such as:
-red and white patches in the throat
-difficulty swallowing
-tender or swollen glands (lymph nodes) in the neck
-red and enlarged tonsils
-headache
-lower stomach pain
-fever
-general discomfort, uneasiness, or ill feeling
-loss of appetite and nausea
-rash

Treatment
In most cases, doctors prescribe about 10 days of antibiotic medication to treat strep throat. Within about 24 hours after starting on antibiotics, your child will probably no longer have a fever and won't be contagious. By the second or third day after taking antibiotics, the other symptoms should start to go away, too.

A Happening Problem

Drugs, alcohol, pills etc. are everywhere to be found during this century. But it's a huge deal, and i'll tell you why, becuase people are dying thanks to the effect of these narcotics. I have a friend, whose identity will be left unknown who is going through the worst times right now and she has no clue that what shes going to will eventually lead her to die. She developed a severe ulser by blinge drinking everyday, she bleeds black blood everywhere that can reach the surface of her body. This is something that gradually messes up her insides and could begin to overlap other health factors destroying her intestines and other vital organs. This young adolescent takes pills of every sort, but if you ask her what she took she has no idea, it's not like she cares either. The first time she was given to try weed was at the age of 12 and since the as been offered everything from extasy to heroin. She is a family friend and she told be everything because she says she looks up to me, but shes dying infront of me so i asked my psychology teacher what was the best thing to do and he sad to tell his dad so he could take action and help her because i couldn't do much with her health problems. What should i do? why?

School vs. Friends

Im not finding a balance between these two necessary things in my life. School right now is as hectic as can be and the classes i'm taking require much of my attention and hard effort to have any intent on doing well. Friends are also in similar situations, involved in their courses and school activities to have valuable information on their transcripts to get accepted into their college. SAT, how could you ever forget such a horrible test. I think i have al the right to say everyone is freaking out about these exam that its only function is to decide our future with a couple numbers put together in 5 hours of work. To me this exam is ridiculous and useless, instead of comparing your academic achievements throughout your life they just juxtapose some questions and pretend for you to be chill about it. Is their a way I could find time for my academic life which decides my future and the friends that will support me?

Why Do You Call Them That?

People have different perspectives on what a friend is and the qualities they should obtain to be a good one. Watch this video and give your response to Why Do You Call Them That?