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do you actually remember yourself waking
up in the mornings and giving yourself a
promise to start a new day in a
completely different way or any other
situations when you decide to skip an
episode on Netflix and start changing
yourself though one way or another I
don't think that it lasts for a long
period of time I am an ordinary teenager
with ordinary beliefs and thoughts but
there is something that makes me
different and that is intrinsic
connected to the speech of mine the
process of transformation that I'm going
through for my whole life I've been
wondering about the face of going the
phase of changing until that very moment
when I realized that no one even
explains what kind of a crucial role it
plays in a teenager period or how many
stages it includes in general during the
last few years
participates in a couple of social
projects and discovering myself from
different perspectives I said the first
step to the process of transformation
you may think that maybe I was lucky
enough to find my niche of development
maybe it's all about the people who
surround me but there are hundreds and
hundreds of teenagers who may not be
lucky enough to experience that due to
their insecurities or a lack of
opportunities and I can say for sure
that I would not be on this stage
talking about the importance of
transformation if there was not a moment
when I realized that I'm changing change
is the most constant thing change do we
actually give much sense to this word
though is the best word which can fully
describe the process of transformation
firstly it seems
easy to say I am changing to change for
me is just nothing but the process is
for its your complicated and if we
really have that a resistible desire to
go through it we have to understand the
conditions that we may deal with many
grown-ups have been asking questions as
how is it like to be a teenager
well after realizing the shift to build
yourself with the very first bricks go
through a process of self creation which
includes Wow moments and yeah it sucks
situations I say it it's not easy it's
not easy believe me considering the fact
that the second type of situations
overshadows the first numbers and it
happens very often so how can we exceed
the number of Wow periods in our life
being just a teenager in order to answer
this question you have to dig deeper
into the concept of transformation
itself so let's clarify what
transformation is from my point of view
it's a tie when a person is experiencing
this avalanche of fails and victories at
the same time which turned oneself into
a completely different individual who
would be way more matured to face new
life hurdles having that emotional
intelligence and using rational focus
wisely but some of you may call it as a
period of churning from a teenager to a
young adult adulting as we say but there
is no guarantee that by turning 18 or
something you may reach this pinnacle of
mental and emotional maturity
so that makes us think that there is
something between these two terms
actually there are four stages of change
itself we can describe this process as a
curve which starts at the upper point
then goes down and then rises up again
those ups and downs define the way
wonder go each stage negative state has
initial point where we deny everything
on our path we cannot accept our
insecurities we cannot accept our
failures and this process entails
emotional focus because different
reactions come out whether it's
frustration sadness bitterness or anger
then we are going to face with the
process of resistance and at that point
we turn on our rational focus and we
start to realize that the process of
change is what turns our world from
upside down making us belief in new
principles rules and ideologies the
bottom point of resistance is where
change shows its features turning into a
positive state and there we start to
explore ourselves we start to be curious
about what will happen if I do this or
that and eventually we reach the stage
of acceptance which means that we become
satisfied with the process of a constant
change so it becomes a way of living in
my case it all started with the process
of self-realization
when teenagers start looking for their
passions when I started revealing my own
driving forces of life in tenth grade I
was living like an ordinary senior year
student during my school homework
attending courses and until that very
moment when I realized that I was just
going with the flow and my surroundings
did actually the same thing and several
questions crossed my mind at that time
why aren't we teenagers showing our full
potential
why don't we realize the importance of
change of becoming a better version of
ourselves becoming social activists was
my passion starting as a volunteer and
continuing up as a project coordinator I
have become so eager to lead social
projects and that's actually how my
period of Sigma has stopped and the road
of change
been eventually paved but several
teenagers whom I met were still building
blocks on their path not even realizing
that they are creating a bazillion of
limitations on the air path so why do we
have to consider this as the most
profound process of our life the first
reason isn't really connected with an
opportunity of changing a demeanor which
will set a tract for your future goals
this step is the initial point to
inculcate one of the most necessary
traits of all time and that is
flexibility putting yourself in the most
unfamiliar situations means being
prepared for your future means
understanding different environments
enhancing the capability to become a
part of it I think the initial point of
mine in this terms was one of the most
challenging ones the fear to works
awakening the inner me in an unfamiliar
environment was totally an eye-opening
experience and I believe that it has
become such a real tendency among
teenagers to feel so uncomfortable in a
social ambience and I guess see for sure
that we didn't take a little for me to
leave my comfort zone but the main
motive that was pushing me forward was
the audacity for a change and situations
may be different for everyone the second
includes an ability of becoming a risk
taker life is all about the choices that
we make and hesitate between especially
for teenagers like me transformational
period serves as a perfect example to
test yourself comprehend your ability of
taking risks and the first fails may
serve as the most profound indicators of
becoming a better version of yourself
and many teenagers may see it as a
catalyst of their own metamorphosis as
well this process and that's actually
how I have noticed that most of our
teenagers are afraid to think broadly if
to understand the world around them
afraid to change the third is to get
accustomed to the process of
transformation and at this point is the
final part of the metamorphosis when it
becomes not just an action but a habit
which can be incorporated into your life
as well once you get to the point of a
flexible person in a risk-taker you're
ready to put yourself in this constant
circle of development right now I am in
this initial point of a massive world of
transformation and I see my external
world shift and change dramatically as
old forms structures rapidly falling
away and credible space is being created
the main thing that I want teenagers to
understand that that is the time for a
change
for realizing your full potential for
not going with the flow and finding your
audacity for transformation thank you
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