being a teenager prevents meaningfullness

Between parents and school there is no real time for a teenager to live his or her life. We are told to be at school at 830 so we have to wake up earlyer then we want to. We spend the first half of the day learning things that we are told are important, then we are given a set amount of time to eat before we go back to learning about the "important" things. then we go home, mabye do an after school activity, and do homework.

then we have week ends. As if school doesnt take up enough of our lives, it bleeds over into our week end. the point of the week end we are told is to get away from school and relax. That wouldnt be such a bad idea if it wasnt for school and parents. In between over the weekend school work, and our parents having control over where teenagers go and what they do, there isnt much freedom left in it at all.
This leaves us with the question of between going to school five times a week, to having to ask permission to leave the house on a saterday night; is a teenagers life really their life. Or is it the life that other people force upon us.

being a teenager is just like being a dog. How much control does a dog really have over his life? He eats only when he is fed, he pees only when he is let out and if he doesnt sit down when he is told, he is punished. Niether teenager nor dog has the freedom that they think they have