Who are you?

You have all heard of a mid-life crisis: It's when you are old and you start questioning if you're living life the way you truly want to live it.

This article provides some questions we might ask ourselves when and if that time comes. But why should teenagers wait until they're forty-something to decide they need to start living life? So, for all you teenagers with a semi-early-life crisis, here are some questions for you to answer.

To start, I will ask the most important question, "What makes you get up in the morning?"

Do not reply "the alarm clock" or "my mom," for this is a serious issue and doesn't require smart-aleck responses. So, what makes you get up every morning and face a world that usually has more problems than the days in a year? Is it an object, a person or a goal?

Should you even have a reason? Sometimes it's nice to know that you have a reason to wake up, to show that the world can't keep spinning perfectly without you. What would happen if you chose not to wake up again? Simply put, what is your purpose in life?

What type of person are you? Are you a stuck-up nerd, an arrogant athlete, a kind nobody or a mean somebody?

At a young age did you want to be that person? Are you a person who will help if you can or one who will only help if there is something in it for you? Are you the person you want to be now? Are you the person you should be?

Lastly, what do you do? What kind of events make up your day?

Are they important or insignificant? What will you do with your time? Will you write a book, practice your basketball skills, work in private classes or sleep through it all? At the end of the day, are you content with what you have done? What do you want to do in the future?

Obviously, the only correct answers are your own. Start living the life you want to live now so you will never have that mid-life crisis. Do what you want to do and change what you want to change. You have a head start, use it wisely.

Gabe Goodman is a freshman at Greeley

Central High School.