stream of teen spirit

exercise #3 2010

Answer any/all of these questions or another question . . .

Did you watch the inauguration?
Where did you watch it?
Did you feel included in the celebration?
Did you feel any kind of emotional reaction?
Did the people around you?
Do you believe in hope?
What would you like to see change – in the country, for yourself, for the world?
Do you believe that one small change , perhaps multiplied by many could implement change?
What can you do to change your life?
What can you do to change the life of someone else?

people change (exercise #3)

People change but while we change, we don't pay attention to ourselves.  We can't realize the change that we also make on our surroundings.  Time goes by really fast, but it goes at the same pace.  When we watch the clock, time seems slow, but when we do something else, time flies.

As time goes by, our bodies grow. With time, our attitudes change and then we react differently. Then everything else changes. Everything is made up of cells. Cells multiply and die. Change happens in everything.  We are made of change.

~ kyle j., (townsend,vt)

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life changes like a mood (exercise #3)

Life changes just like a mood.  One minute you are a successful person; you have an awesome job that pays great.  The boom, the job fails and you go down with it.  Without a job, you get no money.  Being that the world pretty much runs on money, you are S.O.L. While you’re hurrying to find another job, you get your car taken away making it harder to find another job. Then all of a sudden you’re walking up the road and you see a sign that says HELP NEEDED.  So you go for the interview to see if you are eligible for the job but that crashes and burns just like the last one so you decide to start your own business and you keep your own business going for years and years to come.

~ jared l., 15, (townshend,vt)

change (exercise #3)

I fear my life will never change.

It’s always been the same like the little things in life are

Repeating and retreating

Seems impossible

The drama in life

So I hit the pipe.

Ripe

Despite the fight

Going on

In the world

Makes me wanna hurl

Like the thoughts in my head

Criticizing each other instead

Of trying to change

F**k the change

I’m deranged.

 

(Yet)  the thought of staying the same

Is boring

Leaving me snoring

It’s pouring

Ideas in my head

Laying in bed

What am I thinking?

Linking thought to thought

Then it drops and I forgot

The important things in life

That’s why I see no change

In pain.

~ jamie c., 16, (townshend, vt)

no more (exercise #3)

What stays the same in my life is that I’m always being put down in my home - never getting any respect in or outside of my family, so I do a lot of drugs.  Mostly pot, which I believe, is not a drug, but never mind.  What I was saying is that my family has no respect for me, I feel like I can’t do anything right at home so when I am at school I try to keep a good outlook on life so I won’t be dragged down into the hole where only misery and hate lie. I need to get out after I leave school – I’m gone!!! No more, no more. I need it so bad, I taste it like a drug, it’s so close, I know it.  I have that feeling I will be free from them.  I love them so much but I can’t deal with it no more – with all the bullsh*t I have to go through.  I have to leave. “No more” I’ll say to them, “I’m Free” from you, no more, at last.  Freedom, that is all I ask for, Freedom.

~ chris young, 18 (townshend, vt)

perspective theater in the style of attitude (exercise #3)

The incredible transforming man

Welcome to the circus of life

Watch me at the freak show

Switch masks more or as much as

A man trying to forget himself

To forget how he gets used to and

Finds the flaws in all

The personaes he is today

A harlequin man willing always

To taste food he doesn’t have

Why think when I can

Breathe in impulse

Change face with the pass of a hand

I’ll lose myself tomorrow with a little fear

And a little anger because of a little fear

For changing

Maybe I’ll become a person who

Doesn’t mind a lil fear or a lil change

But hey, come here, a lil secret

That stuff will never change

But shhh, I don’t want to be a man who

Can’t change, not now, not today

So with a pass of a hand,

A pass of fear,

A pass of anger

I will fly like a phoenix

Toward a new day, with a differently

Tinted sun

My mask pleasing the crowd below

One day wanted, dead or alive

Another, behind the scenes pulling strings

Next week, a tool used too much

Who decides to revolt, like a machine

Raging against

Only to realize that the real fight’s inside

Well bring it on cause

Today I’m ready

To push the world to cross my line

But when it’s all over and blown wide

I will change what I feel inside

Pass that hand

And wonder why

Everyone has to die

Life is a theater

And I’m willing to perform

Each and every role.

~ chris chaloux, 17, (townshend, vt)

 

Changez (exercise #3)

I see dem changes familiar faces

Turnin into strangers in familiar places

In fact it’s hate that made us

Despite what you wanna create

Things change an hardly anyone get at they big break

You always too late, can’t claim bein sane

Cuz in the end you crazy all the same

Nothing but time to waste as your dried

Like my face paint

You face as straight as slate I await just in case

Knowing that one shake could be your eternal wake

Swayin in a daze as I’m prayin for change

An I am not bracin for a sanction

I’m changing the pace of turning pages

My life biography ain’t even thick enough to see

Cuz it’s filled with my memories

And what others will remember from me

Just succumbing could be considered

Custody

But jus think of what the world could be

If sum of us jus didn’t breathe

Literally wishin we been struck out to sea

Despite beliefs and what ninjas say to me

I wish I never took this leap but geez

Why was I conceived?

~ lukas white, 17, (newfane, vt)

change (exercise #3)

When I born into this world, I was born into a world of heartless criminals.  I was born into the Brattleboro Trailer Park with a bunch of dumb #!*^ smokers.  By the time I was 2, my lungs were full of smoke.  Before I was three, I was in seven other homes but the 7^th was the one.  I was the runt of the two brothers but now they are the runts.  The two older brothers will never change.  I will grow to the challenge of becoming the best I can to be a man.  I will never forgive the people who abused me but by the abuse I went through made the person who you see here now.

~ jared l., 15, (townshend,vt)

exercise #3

Answer any/all of these questions or another question . . .

Did you watch the inauguration?
Where did you watch it?
Did you feel included in the celebration?
Did you feel any kind of emotional reaction?
Did the people around you?
Do you believe in hope?
What would you like to see change – in the country, for yourself, for the world?
Do you believe that one small change , perhaps multiplied by many could implement change?
What can you do to change your life?
What can you do to change the life of someone else?

change (exercise #3)

 

Have I changed? Yes, obviously I have; time will change anyone, even if said changes are too minute to even really be a factor. That however, does not answer the question of how I have changed. So, then, how have I changed? First off, I’m certainly older and wiser, as my desire for knowledge has not diminished. Secondly, I’ve broadened and honed my musical and literary tastes, something that arrived entirely on its own.  I also suppose that I have grown a fair bit less awkward; that however, was goal of mine anyways.  My taste in films has also been honed and I’ve grown into a bit of a Dario Argento disciple. To finish, I’ve really begun to care about school. I mean, yes, I only really care about English and History, but I’m finally out of the, “hurr, hurr, F_ _ ck school” mentality. Yes, I know, public school is a train wreck, but it’s certainly better than where I came from.

Duncan Sullivan, 17, (alstead, nh)