Teenage Angst is a curious thing.

see, whenever you have a piece of writing done by somebody under 20 that is full of anger or discontent, people tend to dismiss it like so: "oh, that's just Teenage Angst." they give the impression that it's worth nothing... true, i agree that teenage problems like image issues or relationships and so on aren't as earth-shattering as like hunger or unemployment or WAR, but they're still problems! they still exist. and they are still problems that every teenager goes through, whatever millenium they grew up in.

i mean, what makes it ok to discredit a poem about a teenager revealing the BGR frustrations in his or her life, and not that of say a 35-year-old sophisticated urbanite looking for love? aren't the emotions just as heartfelt? aren't the situations just as common in society? and aren't the problems just as hard to solve?

"it's just a phase" they say, but hey, isn't our whole life made up of phases anyway? somehow there's something wrong here. so let the floodgates be opened... Teenage Angst should have its day.