I think I have captured the reason for teenage rebellion. The reason everyone has a problem with teenagers. As a child, if you are raised "right", you know that you must do everything the adults tell you to do, with a smile on your face, whether you want to do it, or not. When you reach a certain age, that smile falters. You suddenly realize that you don't have to something if you don't want to. You ask yourself why you are doing this for people who don't even want you to speak. Eventually, the fear is gone. That childhood fear that everyone has is just gone and you are left with resentment, but you are a 'child' and children aren't supposed to hate doing things for adults so you let that resentment build. Until one day, whether you actually think it or not, you stop doing things with a smile and you start showing this thing they call "attitude". You don't want to do something so either you won't, or you show clearly that you don't. Adults resent this, apparently forgetting that they had the same "ah-ha" moment, if you will. the Joined resentment creates a rift. This is the root of the problem between teenagers and adults. See, adults don't want children to have an opinion. "They don't know anything, they're too young." "ignore her, she's just being contrary". When a teenager hits 16 or so, they start to see themselves as equals to adults. But to adults, they are still just a child. I am almost 18. I have let everyone walk all over me. This is when I say "No more". There will be no more suckering me into doing things I don't want to or can't do. I will not feel bad about it. I have an opinion, and I will state it when I feel that it is necessary. I don't mind doing things for my parents or family, but there comes a time when your needs have to come first, when you're fed up. People have to uinderstand this. This is not all about me. It is a cycle and it needs to stop. I'm tired of people thinking that they can just push me to do anything. I'm frustrated. I'm tired. I'm fed up. I'm done.

Pigeon

I forgot to tell you. I rescued a pigeon. I know what you're thinking. "A pigeon?!? Why would you rescue one of those? " But listen, I can't see an animal suffer without doing something about it. Some kids were kicking it around after it seemingly broke it's wing and it developed heatstroke after they left it in the sun. I picked it up and put it in a box, then I took it home. It turned out that it still had pinfeathers. It needed water, a cool place, and to be syringe fed some high-protein, highly nutritional feed for a few weeks to treat the heat stroke, and to accelerate the healing of its wing. The bird began recovering immediately and was flapping his wings about after a week or so. I felt that keeping him in the cage was restricting and unnecessary. So, I took him out and let him go with some other pigeons around a large pond, away from my dogs and cats. He still shows up there from time to time. We banded him.

What's New

Okay, I haven't been on for awhile because I've been taking care of my dog. Remember when someone dognapped him? Well, the near worst did happen. He (surprise, surprise) caught an infection from being without his prevenative medication for too long and from being outside too soon after his surgery with an open incision wound. Okay, now that we've estabolished what caused the infection... I've had to take full time care of him because the infection caused him to stop eating. He lost almost 50% of his bodyweight and all but for the last 2 weeks or so, I've been spoonfeeding him his food. He has 2 liquid medications, one to treat the infection, one to treat his malnutrition. He's on a special combination of expensive prescription food, wet and dry. All food and medication need to be given every 12 hours. I've been working with him and I think he's beginning to gain some weight and he's no longer dehydrated. This is especially good because they were going to put him down if he didn't gain weight soon enough. I might be able to save him after all.