I Am @ Youth.SG - Loner strikes, Nation weeps.

Teens smoking, getting into fights, joining gangs, what's the real problem actually? No one in the right mind would get into a fight, there would sure to be a cause or something that literally attacts them. Social circles of teens this day are the roots of the problems. Youngsters this days are more isolated, in this society, who can be not? With the stress from parents, stress from community/environment, its unevitable for them to be not.

So called the "good friends" of them(youngsters), get them into gangs, persuade them to smoke, how could they reject? Being in that social circle, they're proud of it, and it dangers their friendship with their "good friends" when they reject. And they feel proud doing what they are told or persuaded. And they look down on others, others whom are not in their circle. That's how the terrifying loneliness starts.

BLACKSBURG, Virginia - The deadliest school shooting in US history was carried
out by a 23-year-old "loner" from South Korea who was studying for an English
major, university and police officials said Tuesday.

-ChannelNewAsia, 17 April 2007

A recent report on the newspaper. Its amazing, no, terrifiying to know what isolation or lonliness can make a perfectly normal person go nuts.

People with the right mind, right attitude, or are just not accepted by the community would be laughed at by these teens. They would be make fun of, and life just don't seemed right. They want to be accepted, but maybe its because of their looks, or even character that don't allow them to. They are not the problem, not the cause, its their environment which is bad, wrong. They are perfectly okay!

What is this earth becoming man, people who doesn't want to be influenced are looked down, isolated and become depressed. There's a real need to change the attitudes of youngsters, but it can't seem possible. I am a teen too, and I know I am very rebellious, so how can WE really change?