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What They Don't Tell You at 15
Life hits you and everything changes.
If you’re skinny, you starve yourself,
if you’re “fat”, you’re disgusting.
You play sports? You’re now considered a prep and have the attitude that you’re better than everyone.
You have had a boyfriend or two, you’re a hoe,
you haven’t had a boyfriend, you’re a nobody.
Social media is now your life and every picture has to be edited perfectly,
if not you get zero likes and you’re ugly.
You compare yourself to other people on social media and your self esteem goes down.
You’re pretty, but you don’t feel as if you’re as pretty as you actually are.
You own designer clothes that your parents work hard for, you’re now a show off,
but if you don’t own any you’re poor and weird.
Everyone will start talking about you and no one is truly your friend.
You have to learn how to be independent and deal with problems because you can’t trust anyone.
If you go to parties, you’re a w**re,
if you don’t you’re lame.
Your boyfriend cheats on you, no one tells you and you’re left in the dirt and it's somehow YOUR fault.
Nobody tells you every week a new rumor is going to go around whether it be about you, your best friend, or someone you’ve never heard of.
Everyone is going to believe the rumor and you are going to lose friend.
People are going to promise they’ll always be there, but as soon as you ask for something small they won’t even be there.
The friends you thought you had are going to be the ones you find out talk bad about you the most,
you never have TRUE FRIENDS.
No one bother to tell you at 15 that you are going to be judged for EVERYTHING you do.
Nobody tells you that the boy or girl you’re in “love” with is going to break your heart, and that it may be the worst pains you will feel besides losing some of your closest friends.
They don’t tell you at 15 that high school and social media is all you really have to worry about.
Your grades lead to the school you’re going to get in whether your friends are going there,
or you’re trying to get as far away from where you are.
Your best friend will only be your friend until a rumor goes around and she believes it over you.
Nobody tells you that you are named for everything you do and that everything that you have possibly done will get around.
You have no private life and if you do someone will find out.
Nobody tells you at 15 that your life is going to change and you’re either hated or liked.
That’s what they don’t tell you at 15.

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I am a freshman in high school. I am fifteen years old and one of my teachers gave our class an assignment where we "immitate" a poem. I chose to immitate the poem "What They Don't Tell You." I'm not sure who actually came up with this idea, but I wanted to make one for teenagers. At fifteen you are going through your first year of high school and you have just finished middle school. A lot changes and right then and there you don't notice it, but a lot changes. Friends change, people change, and life changes. This poem is kind of how we view society and how we are viewed and I wrote it based off experience and other peoples experiences. This poem really tells a lot about high school and our lives as a high schooler.