teenagers

i never expected at all that one of the things i would miss while living in Dunedin would be hanging out with high-schoolers. i honestly just believe that they're so incredible, and not enough people in the world realise how much potential they have.

i remember sitting with a girl in O-week at dinner one night, and telling her how i don't drink. and she told me that she barely drunk alot either and she'd be lucky to get through a box of drinks before the end of the semester. i haven't seen her a lot since then, but when i went downstairs tonight - there she was drunk as a skunk all ready for town. my O-week dinner friend is definately not the only one either, there's not a lot of people the same person they were 5 months ago - alot of them just throwing their values out the window in order to fit in. it makes me wonder how different this world could be, if teenagers knew their worth, potential and ultimately who they were while they were still in high-school. it's a dream that i have among many others, to get to the teenagers in the world and help them find themselves in him, before the world gets to them and determines who they should be.