A mandatory feeling,
Experienced by all.
Starts with adolescence,
Yet differs from early to late.
The gradual changing period,
Gifts us many legacies.
Maturity sense of selection, differentiation of good & bad,
Sharing of loads, understanding responsibilities & lot more.
The era helps,
To enhance knowledge.
To gather experiences.
To make wise decisions oftenly.
To increase self potential.
Growing up,
Grows our desires subsequently.
Sometime urge for freedom emerge,
Sometime an asset of proud happiness & relief for parents,
& sometime standing up self & chasing dreams/goals.
Where growing up brings positivity,
It also carries vacuum of generation gap & lack of communication.
Never arrives without any awkward situation,
Sometimes funny & sometimes heart-breaking.
The change, not just simply mental,
But the same time very much physical.
Changes of physique, voice & appearances becomes prominent,
Ending up in depression, agony, non-understood & middle in ocean.
Where growing up asserts responsibilities,
It arduous the situation & complicates whole.
A difficult depressive & traumatic stage indeed,
But the same time a building block in one's life,
Preparing for the race of life.
-Fauzia Afreen
