Habits

Five years is quite a long time and I think that everybody changes in that time. Five years ago I was only twelve years old and since then I have grown up and changed quite a lot. First of all, I used to be very shy back then, especially around new people and now I feel much more confident about myself. Moreover, I used to read a lot of books and now I spend more time browsing on the Internet instead of reading. My style has also changed – I used to wear baggy clothes and look like a boy a little bit but now I understand that I’m a girl and I should act like one.

In the last five years I’ve also made some new friends and some people who are now very close to me, were only strangers back then. I think that I’ve also become closer with my family members and even though I’m a teenager now, we talk more with each other and I think my parents understand me better.

I don’t think there’s a huge generation gap in my family, because my parents are trying to be modern and as I said, they understand me and my behavior most of the time. However, I do know some families where generation gap is really visible and not only age difference but also teenagers are guilty for that because they want to be independent and smarter than everyone else. That kind of behavior definitely has a negative effect on the family because teenagers start arguing about almost everything with their parents and that never solves anything. However, this problem could be solved by both sides working with each other like equals and, of course, a little bit of tolerance for the different opinion would help a lot.