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I'll be leaving your ranks in less than a month, and I'd like to simply point out how completely and utterly thrilled I am for that.

I've been amung you for the last six years, from my almost painfuly awkward thirteen to my... well, maybe not as painful, but still just as awkward nineteen. They have been fairly turbulent times, but I'm sure as a demographic whole, we can all agree that that's almost always the case. I've never exactly been seen as one of you by those who know me, though, and there's a few simple reasons for that.

I have always had a mind of my own, something that a lot of you need to develope and realize. Just because it's easier to fall into a mob mentality around your friends and let others do the thinking for you doesn't mean that you should. It's pathetic when you realize that without anyone else around you, you have no sense of self. Just because during all those lunch periods I prefered to sit in the library and read instead of hanging out and doing... whatever the hell you decided to be doing behind the school, or going to class as opposed to... not, doesn't make me anything less than you. It might make me a little socially inept, sure, but well hey, I graduated on time, didn't I?

Respect is something that needs to be earned, and reciprocated, and it's also something the lot of you need to learn. You're just some punk ass kid who just shoved past a few people to get into the subway before anyone else, and then you stand by the door, that's just stupid. You make fun of the people around you who you don't know for some pointless reason, and I doubt you're all too insecure in yourselves for it to make you feel better about your own life.

Manners are something that you should be taught when you're in kindergarten. Simple 'please's and 'thank you's can get you a lot, so don't snap when someone doesn't hold the door for you when I straight up saw you let it drop on someone and then laugh about it. Why the hell should anyone be polite to you when you're nothing but an immature jackass? And don't bitch at people for listening to your conversations if you're having them in a quiet area ten thousand decibles louder than you need to be having them! If you're standing around with your friends screaming at each other, who the hell is listening? Definitely not your friends, so it's only going to be the people who are subjected to hearing about how you "completely taught that one guy", and how "that bitch totally deserved it, she was a slut anyway"!

I realize that not all teenagers are like this (I'm living proof of this), but good lord if a lot of you aren't! More and more lately the lot of you are just gettng on my nerves, and I want nothing more than to step into your conversations and completely insult you using proper english that I'm not entirely sure you'll understand!

You're rude, shallow, materalistic, ignorant little people, and I hope that a lot of you fall on your asses the second you're out in the real world without your friends, or mommy or daddy to coddle you.

To the teengagers I know who aren't like this, even the ones I don't know who aren't like this, kudos. Keep it up, even if all the rest continue to make you look bad. Chin up, it's almost done.