
If they even manage to make it to that point.

If it annoys your parents, do more of it! You'll deal with the consequences later! Now's a time for endless, mindless fun and avoiding everything the older generation tells you you need to do! This has been the norm for the teenage years since 1958(BCE), and what happens to nearly everybody around the world at some point.Until they reach adulthood, their minds finish developing, and they suddenly realize ".WHAT DID I JUST DO?! I'd better work mindlessly at my job and start a family so that I can forget I was ever that stupid!". All that matters is what YOU do, and what other people in your clique are doing.

Your hormones are, including those blasts of pure adrenaline! Having to work for a living is a long way off, so you can put off completing that test and go party! Get out there and drive that car, or listen to that rock/electronica music at full blast, or bungee jump from that bridge, or graffiti that wall, or download all this porn that you're suddenly craving after wondering why people even want to make babies after you were given "the talk" a few years ago. From age 13 to about 20/21, our minds suddenly open up to the fact that there's a whole world out there and we're no longer restricted to our house, our yard, or even our parents' rules! It's a time to get out and EXPLORE, try everything that you didn't even know existed, or that straight-up scared you off when you first saw it at the innocent age of 10! Who cares if it's dangerous or bad for you? Your brain's not in charge.

Yes, teen culture has ALWAYS been stupid. I know that makes me sound like an old curmudgeon, and that I should be sitting out on my porch, screaming at kids to get off my lawn, but I mean it in a slightly different way than you're probably thinking.
