funny story really..first off, my parents are insane! soo when they catch me and my cousin smoking, they pretty much decide its best to ruin my life. and by ruining my life, i mean, NO CAR, NO PHONE, NO COMPUTER, NO WEEKENDS, so in a round about way, NO LIFE! They tell me i need to act more like an adult, when i really i need to be treated more like an adult. i turn 18 in about a month, and so, i think, if i make the choice to smoke, good or bad, i should have the choice to smoke, considering i can buy them whenever i want, sooner than they think. that's besides the point. another thing is, they think that my boyfriend and friends, are influencing me to make these decisions, because they dont think that i could possibly make this decision on my own, like everything else. every bad decision that has ever come along in my life, is never blamed on me, but the people around me. which usually, is far from the truth. every bad decision i've made has always been up to me and noone else has ever pressured me to do anything different. my friends usually try to talk me out of a lot of the things i do because they dont want me to get introuble or make bad decisions. i wish that my parents could see how great my friends really are and maybe then they would realize that most of the decisions i make are based on how much stress i have in my life. i know that i cant make up excuses for the things that i do wrong, and i have no reason to blame my problems on anyone else but myself, but atleast when i do make wrong decisions, i know it and i'll admit it, and whenever i do become aware of a mistake i've made, i put a lot of effort to fix it and try to make things better for mine and my familys life. i really hate how much my parents over react and how much these little problems become the biggest weight on there sholders, and i dont like to be the one that always causes problems and become such a burden in there lives. maybe im the one that has the problem and i do make too many wrong decisions for my age. i thought that teenagers are supposed to try new things and most of they're, good or bad, experiences are done at this age. i just hope that later along the line, my family and i will look back on everything and laugh and we all have learned from our mistakes by then. i would just likle to know whose right or wrong here??