Teens, you're not beTWEENs.

The 'today' generation consists of anyone ages of 16-28. You're 'old' if you're 30 and jail bait if you're 15 or younger. So what makes this group of age of sixteen to twenty-eight so significant?

It doesn't help that it's hard to tell apart an eighteen year old girl from a woman who's a decade older than her. It also doesn't help that when you go to a club, you aren't going there to meet adults. You're likely to find a few sixteen year olds who managed to sneak in somehow and had far more drinks than you, yourself, could handle. And sad to say, but this has been the trend for well over a decade now, becoming ever so popular in year 2000.

The borders of high school and college mixed together and turned four years of high school and four years of college into just eight years of 'make or break it' time. On top of all of this, it affects people who should be adults. They often can't tell themselves apart from the teens they club with.

This disappearance of boundaries has made it even easier for people to leave responsibilities off at a distance to drink themselves and drug themselves away into oblivion. For the older, they act younger. For the younger, they act older. Both, however, lack much progress.

This isn't to say that there are only party-goers. And this isn't to say that all party-goers are suffocating their lives. This is to say that it's become such a trend that the numbers are slowly but surely rising. The US is being filled with irresponsible people.

Clara Barton, the woman famous for organizing the Red Cross. She started her path to stability and adulthood at the age of eleven when she began tending to her brother who was physically ill from an injury. Nowadays, eleven year olds are expected not to do drugs, stay home and play games. George Washington was a surveyor of Virginia, expected to survive the wild and jot down details of everything he saw. He did this in his late teens. Sixteen year olds to nineteen year olds are expected to pass high school.

As much as I seem to be reiterating the first few chapters of "Do Hard Things" by Alex and Brett Harris, it makes sense and I have no better way of putting it. They explained it well. Low expectations cause low outcomes which causes high drop out rates, high 'I live with mom' rates, and more.

I honestly believe that if schools taught more on WHY we work and WHY it is important, it'd make life a bit easier. What do you think?