Teenagers: The most complicated of all living things. Or so people like to think. There are much more complex things in the Universe, but for the purpose of this story we are going to settle on the well-known fact that teenagers are the most complicated.

Picture a girl, by the age of 15, standing in a small field.
Picture a small creek that cuts through the field, lined with flowers and vegetation of that sort.
Picture birds singing in the trees that surround the field, and cicadas that sound all day.
Now that you get the picture, you can now picture her silent tears falling from her eyes, shining in the sunlight as she stands defiantly to the sky above.

“I don’t think I’ll ever get my mind around it. It’s not like I can do anything about it…” She allows herself a short laugh. “But that’s how it’s supposed to be.” She holds herself tighter. “And I won’t ever get to see you.” She bows her head in defeat.

Although this situation has been repeated many times over, it doesn’t lose it’s effect. You must know that when most people get frustrated or stressed, they want to be alone. This is the field this particular person goes to for just that purpose. To think.

Thinking is a wonderful tool. It can be used for so many things. Why then, is it rarely turned to for help? Another thing….
Emotion. Another powerful tool, maybe even more powerful then logic. And sometimes…emotion overpowers thought.
This particular teenager is a thinker. But her one major fault is her overpowering emotion. She fights it every day, and sometimes the emotion is tamed. However, it does not go away.
Sometimes she thinks it never will.

“But I guess that’s a good thing,” she says, smiling. “I need this emotion to live.” She pauses. “I need it to be.” The wind blows softly through her hair. She sighs, and falls back, landing in the warm grass. “Life,” she says. “It gets under your skin. It’s so beautiful…” She wraps her fingers in a few blades of grass, gently stroking them. Slowly, her head turns to look up at the sky, into the deep blue vastness of infinity. “It’s blue…” She laughs.

Another emotion is joy, which is often felt with love. It’s occurred to some people that you cannot have one without the other, but this is not always the case. Some people have loved without joy, their relationship consisting of nothing but peril and pain. Others have been happy with a partner, but never really felt the connection that love has.
Some people believe love to be something developed. What about love at first sight? Cliché, yes, but you need to remember that it does exist.
Even if it exists only in the minds of lovers, where no one else can reach.

The girl takes her ipod out of her pocket, sticking the ear phones in her ears.

..Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable
And life’s like an hourglass glued to the table…

She closes her eyes and concentrates.

…And breathe. Just breathe…

And that is exactly what she does.

…And I feel like I’m naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words on my diary screaming out loud
And I know that you’ll use them however you want to…

The clouds roll over her and a cool breeze picks up the grass. Spiders scramble over the dirt and bees pollinate that flowers. Life. It’s all happening. It’s like a virus, you can’t stop it.
And it occurs to the girl that she is part of the virus. A mere consumer of food, with a beating heart and cells. That’s all.
…but what about emotion. Logic. Desire. Thought. The things humans have to live for?

She is a thinker, and this is what she contemplates. She can’t do anything about it.

Teenagers. The most complicated living things on the planet.