The Vibe Chek: A little Intro and Hope
Hey everyone! I'm Snow and this is The Vibe Chek – where we keep it real about the rollercoaster that teenage life is in 2025. If you have any questions, ideas, or just want to vent, please leave a comment!
Calling All Fellow Teen Disasters
This is the section where I'm going to pretend that I already have a gazillion followers, but let's be real—it's you and me today. And that's amazing. Sometimes, you only need one person that gets you to make you believe in living again. We're all just trying to get through our lives, classes, keep our friends, figure out our parents, figure out our identities, navigate heartbreak, plan our futures, and somehow wake up. Totally no big deal.🙄
So, Let's Get This Straight
It has never been easy being a teenager, but to be a teenager now? That's on another level of complexity. We are the first to have to navigate pop quizzes while receiving a DM about group chat drama, worrying about college at 10th grade, and considering if that party this weekend is even worth staying up for when you have the SAT coming up.
I started this blog because I'm tired of having to watch TikToks that are "about what teens are like" done by 30-year-olds. I'm tired of my parents telling me that "high school should be the best years of your life" while I'm stressing about my GPA in college while i'm in highschool. I'm tired of guidance counselors asking us to "just be teenagers" while still expecting us to have professional-looking LinkedIn profiles and to have an Indeed account by age 16.
The Daily Teen Struggle Is Real
Let's talk about what our days actually entail. Wake up at 6 AM after having stayed up at 2am working on that English essay (apparently every teacher gets it into their head that their class is the only one). Spend 20 minutes deciding what you're going to wear because maybe you wore that one hoodie last Tuesday and someone might notice... Speed eat a granola bar because who's got time for breakfast at 7:30am when your first period rolls around?
And then there is school itself: trying to focus in calculus while your phone just keeps ringing with Snapchat notifications. Navigating cafeteria politics and sitting with your usual crew or trying to talk to others. Dealing with that one teacher who still thinks screaming out students at random is motivational and both frightening and embarrassing.
After school? Rehearsal for whatever extracurricular is intended to make your college application "stand out." Three hours of homework. Family dinner during which you are interrogated for plans post-high school. And somehow in the midst of all of that, you're supposed to maintain relationships, maybe have a love life, practice some self-care, and oh sure—sleep.
On "The Vibe Chek," we will be tackling all solutions about things such as:
- Navigating group work if your team ghosted you
- Real teen problems, like love, reality, personality,
and heartbreak
- Finding your tribe when you don't feel like you fit in
anywhere
- The ultimate playlist for crying in your car in the
school parking lot (cause honestly, we've all done this)
- Dealing with parents (look, I know parents reading these will hate it, but oh well)
Thank you for visiting this blog post! You are welcome to share your ideas, experiences, opinions, and whatever topics are on your mind, pertaining to "The Vibe Chek." The comment section is below.
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I like your topics and agree with them. I'm a teenager and starting to have so much things thrown at me at the same time and feeling confused at times. I do struggle with making friends in school and think that many of the teens around me are very judgmental and others are more focused on building cliques. I'm easy going and this might indicate to them that I'm scared or just meek. I don't want to judge anyone and the only clique I wouldn't mind to be a part of is those that are meaningful, representing something that can be good for my future; other than this, being part of a clique with a leader is just being a waste of my time being a follower of a group like this. I guess I will be making friends with those from future jobs because I imagine they'll be mature enough and more focused in their careers which interest me.
ReplyDeleteSorry you have this problem. I guess things are different for males because guys don't usually act this way, unless they're very immature. It seems like you have goals and don't focus on things that are trivial. Maybe you're more mature than those teenagers you are around by and need to wait till you can be in a different surrounding. Best of luck to you.
DeleteThank you so much for the comment! Iv'e noticed that teenagers in school are the most judgemental when they are jelous or if they like you. I don't know why they just can't act normal. Ive been around cliques all my life, from middleschool to highschool and Iv'e only seen three meaningful cliques. They were the smart ones, the helpful ones, and the litter cleaners. How many have you seen in your school? If any, I mean. You are so right about cliques being a wast of time, if they are bad, I mean.
ReplyDeleteI agree that school can be difficult for teens who don't want to be pulled into circles of judgements. I never had to deal with this and maybe because I'm a guy. I think that teenagers or anybody should be not change in order to fit in because this is a sure way of ruining their lives. The pressure of fitting in must be hard when it takes away who you really are. Girls can be petty and can cause a lot harm to others that they don't approve of. To me, this all comes to immaturity.
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