Emo Teenagers

After reading the articles, I have to admit that indeed a considerable sum of teenagers nowadays seems to become emo and perform self-inflicting acts. To most people, they might think that they are just crazy and have nothing better to do. But to view this problem deeper, I feel that this is due to the ever-changing society. In Singapore, everyone is aiming to excel in academic results or to be outstanding in their own fields. We belong in a competitive global world which cannot condemn mistakes and too self-centered. Thus when teenagers nowadays encounter problems, they have no one to fall back on and they considered themselves to be outcasted. And the most crucial problem that now the teenagers are going through a transition period (puberty) where not just the emotional but physical growth of the teenagers. At this point, the teenagers are confused and stressed; they need someone to show them the path to adulthood. These emo people are those that have no form of support and they go astray. Without any form of help, these emo teenagers use self-mutilation to communicate with the "outside world". Though we find them nonsensical and nuts, we have to realize that is we who cause their weird behaviour,

In order to solve this problem, I feel that we should offer a helping hand to them and engage in social activities with them and try to interact with them and get their moral thoughts back to track.