I’m turning 20 in several days, so I decided it’s a great reason to write about YOUTH. The poem is an ode to my youth.
This year was a great challenge: after I quit my sport career, now I’m back to the gym and even started dancing as well, I found job, started university, started another one job, moved out to live on my own and maybe found out what love can be like.
If you ask me to describe the whole year and all things I learned during it I’d choose the word “responsibility”. It’s quite funny that the more the world develops nowadays and becomes more dynamic, the distance between a “kid” and an “adult”, “childhood” and “adulthood” becomes larger and the transition between them harder and more tangible.
I’m from this group of people who calls it the “best or golden years of our life”. And now I blindly believe in it, maybe because I’ve been through a lot of troubles (all possible kinds) but still perceived everything as the young soul’s used to. You know, when you’re young you’re in the habit to think and believe that nothing is impossible.
“You know, when you’re young you’re in the habit to think and believe that nothing is impossible.”
I learned a lot about people. Especially those around me. When I moved out I learned the importance of the dear parents’s support and I saw that we can be good friends too.
I also learned a lot about the “choice thing”, because I never thought before that in fact. Everything that surrounds you might be your personal choice and that’s why you should choose carefully and consciously. And fortunately or unfortunately I’ve learned that you always have to make your choice and there never is a “golden mean”.
I was also lost in thought of risk. I realized if you don’t take any risks you might never go so far. And this is one more of a “big deal” thing that you are responsible for. So now I’m taking it. Let’s see what I’ll get afterwards.
There are so many more things I learned during my first year of the “adult life”, but the most important one is that we should never stop. We should never stop whatever; positive, useful, challenging we sometimes want to give up on.
Never stop trying, taking risks, loving something or someone, learning. Till you don’t stop – Life goes on.
We were young
And careless,
Living was such a madness
We’d just skipped all the exams,
We were messing around
We would stay till late out,
Change at once all the layouts,
Say “it’s all in the past now”
Spread with the wind…
Make out nude and flowers:
We discovered the colours
We were tasting the values,
That Life can suggest
Smoking fume of future
We were thursty and hungry-
We knew nothing about it
Of, mysterious fate!
Encamp empty parkings,
Counting stars-
White and sparkling
We would talk all about it
Just to settle thngs down.
We were late or early,
Falling asleep in the morning,
Tasting skin, playing bowling,
Love and hate made up journey
We were floating around
We could spend all money
For unfortuned scenario
We got drunk from desires,
Moments that we consumed
And we are still hungry
Wanderers scared of the lightning
But this life’s too exciting
So we’ll catch our luck…
Text and model- Katerina Slugina/ Unsocial Radioactive Kid
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Photographer- Hristo Yordanov
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Makeup- Maggy Ivanova
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