"The teenage years are the most important years of your life"

When I hear the phrase in the title, I kinda cringe a little bit. People who say that are mostly teenagers with no concept of future.

Let's say you live for 80 years. Well, your adult years occupy about 75% of them (60 years). Sure, puberty is the time to learn the useful stuff in life and grow as a person, but it's in adultood where you put everything in practice and yur life actually depends on it. Besides, you can still learn and grow in your adult life.

I think people use that phrase because it's in the teenage years where you usuallystart having a lot of fun and freedom: you meet up with friends more often, you start going to parties, etc. And I get it, I'm having a lot of fun, but we must understand that the future will not be like this. There are way more important and enjoyable things happening in the near future.

In conclusion, although puberty let's us discover freedom and have a lot of fun, adulthood takes up most of your life and makes you the person you will be for the rest of your life.