I’m tired. I’m exhausted. Everything goes wrong. I can’t cope with all the problems that have crushed at me at once from all the sides. There is no strength to go further… How often do these thoughts come to your mind? In fact this depressed condition is familiar to everybody, especially for a teenager, whose nervous system has not been properly formed yet and is undergone by the visit of such a frequent hysterical guest as disappointment or stress. And youth is the very strata of society, which can easily turn out to be in an unpleasant situation, mostly connected not with the world around, but with the inner side. Why is it so? What are the reasons which paint every day of life with dark faded colors? The answer to these questions is rather uncertain as plenty of things can become a spiteful push to psychological problems of youth. But let’s envisage some evident ones.

            Family. Home or prison? Parents are our nearest and dearest people, who try to do their best in order to bring us up properly. They surround us by support, protection and warmth of their hearts. But at some periods of time the loving care becomes excessive and stops being valued by us. We notice only parents’ demands and constant interference with our life. The impossibility of making our own decisions irritates us greatly. The frames which we are put in debar our liberty and don’t let us breathe with our chest full. It sounds very grievously, but at last generation gap awakes misunderstanding between the closest people. And nobody is right in such situations, there is only suffering….

            Education. A way to success or failure? From the very childhood we are told that education is extremely important in our life. They say, no excellent certificate – no profitable and prestigious work.  The more you study – the better future you are provided with. Believing this idea like grim death  we are overloaded by homework, tests, checks of knowledge and extra courses so much that sometimes we even have no time to go for a walk or do whatever we want. As the result we often can’t withstand this duty as it makes us repel everything what is connected with marks and education.

Peers. Dearest friend…or arch-enemy? The relations with peers can be rather tense as everybody wants to prove that he is the best and must be considered as the leader. Even devoted friends cannot always stay friends when the matter of conquering the social status arises. A conflict can lead to a fight and violence or even to a crime.

            Feelings. Love or death? Unhappy love is one of the most tragic reasons for psychological problems. Being without the second part your life as though swoon in a step to a somber (or gloomy) precipice...nothing prevents you from making this last step… because a part of the dearest treasure is cut out from your sole. The rest of it is frozen. You become absolutely indifferent to everything around, nothing makes you merry, the words you are told are senseless, the food you eat is tasteless, all the places and sounds that remind about your love make you mad.  Tears and headache are your faithful  companions  for all long days. And such a condition is not the dead line of distress. It’s more awful if you finally lose your mind and become ready to commit crack-brained actions. Sometimes the pain is so hard that it can lead to suicide.

            Predilection.  Salvation or dreadful habit? Leading a passive way of life and having bad habits is another great trouble. You are not satisfied with your life, but can’t turn it to better. Day after day, night after night, time elapses but nothing special happens, everything is dull and monotonous. Some teenagers try to get rid of this emptiness by using alcohol or drugs. But we know that it is like the antibiotic, which only decreases the pain for some period of time, but doesn’t cure the illness itself. Frequent using of antibiotic wrecks the immune system. The consequences of frequent using of alcohol or drugs are practically the same. Life transverses into eternal torture killing the strength of the will and hope for happiness.

   Society. THEY and me or ME and they? Being young we often fall under other people’s influence and it can badly reverberate on our mental development. We become dependent on more powerful individuals so much that can’t make even the simplest decision by ourselves, we are afraid of announcing our opinion if it contradicts other people and have to live with the feeling of inferiority. On the contrary, some of us are too self-confident and consider that there is no sense in listening to other people’s advice, moral teaching, ideas or opinions and more over following them. We are eager to be independent but we are not skillful enough in living alone and surely it can cause making irreparable mistakes.

  We know that we are on the way to become adults. But this way is so hard and full of innumerable difficulties. Bad relations with parents, friends or peers, problems at school, unhappy love, bad habits and passive way of life, the matter of independency… the list can be easily prolonged.  And every time facing some problem we, teenagers, usually stay alone with our thoughts, because nobody even we ourselves understand what is happening around us.

    I have experienced different problems and remember that awful condition of disappointment, embarrassment and doubting even undoubted things. To return firmness, good mood and high spirit seems to be impossible.

    Now I know the way out. Everything began with watching a really valuable film, called "The secret”. It reveals the most powerful law in the Universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world's history, and through the lives of all great men and women. By applying the knowledge of this law, you can change any aspect you wish. This is the secret of prosperity, health, relationships and happiness. This is the secret of life. Many years ago the secret was intensively hidden, but now it is opened to everybody. The reason of such a surprising change is that the secret works properly only when it is shared with others. So what is the keynote to the secret? It is very simple and includes only two words: the law of attraction. Psychologists, economists and philosophers say that the Universe carries out the wish of every person on the Earth. The only necessary thing is to wish anything and clearly imagine that in reality. It means that a person attracts what he is thinking about. That sounds not bad, isn’t it?

            As for me, I’ve made up my mind to try to use the secret. Now I can surely say: it works!!!

Every time I’m eager to meet or catch the wanted person, it happens! Every time the conditions make me whipped-up, I believe that I’ll overcome all the difficulties and a pretty nice thought turns out to be a reality! The more I believe in the realization of my wish, the quicker it comes true and the more confidence I get for my new desires.

Many people consider that everything has already been predetermined in our life, but in fact you are the very person who builds the bridge of your future.

            Somebody will say that he can’t reach his aim because he doesn’t see the whole way to achieve it. Of course if you are going to a journey for thousands kilometers you won’t see the whole road. But all you need is to make the first step. Driving at night with the headlights lit only several meters before you. But the further you drive, the more you see and if you are going in the right direction, finally you’ll reach the point of destination. The same can be said about your wishes. Dreaming about something you make efforts to come closer and closer to your cherished desire and at last get it. Everything great starts with and is made of small elements and these small parts can bring you as much happiness as the great ones.

            So, during your journey enjoy the beauty around you. It means that not only achievement of your aim or wish but also the process of achieving is worth valuing.

            One famous Polish writer Janush Leon Vishnevskey says that happiness is the moment which we indwell at the very second. Learn to notice it today but not tomorrow or yesterday as the real sense of your life is contained in the perception of unity with the present.  How can we do it? Master the deluge of your thoughts and make yourself sure that your life is great! (a magic Santa’s bag full of marvelous presents, which are waiting for your coming!)

            I’d like to share with you one wise fairy tale, I heard it when I was a small child but I still carefully keep it in my heart.

            Once upon a time there lived a wiseacre, whose wisdom was so great that all the people of the kingdom marveled him and wrote the legends about his adventures. One day the king of the kingdom decided to invite that man to the castle and check whether he was really as wise as he was spoken about or not. The king caught a butterfly and held it in his hand. He wanted to ask that man the only question: "Is the butterfly dead or alive? If the wiseacre answered that it was alive the king would clench the hand stronger and the butterfly would die. If the wiseacre answered that it was dead the king would open the hand and the butterfly would fly away.   The wiseacre answered simply "It depends upon you”.