Seventeen years old

Author: (Japan) Inokuchi Koumichi
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: TOP youth bestseller, HOT growth topics.
Must-read for teenagers: Do you want to know what your Japanese peers are thinking?
Must-read for parents: Do you want to know what your child is thinking?
Adults, be responsible adults! All the efforts my mother made for me were to help me become someone who decides my own fate. — Inokuchi Koumichi
After entering junior high school, I had a feeling as if I had taken the wrong path. I always felt like I couldn’t find my place in the world, so my thoughts were always very confused. The poems and articles I wrote during my middle school years were mostly about searching for myself. This feeling must be shared by everyone. It is an experience that every person goes through from childhood to adulthood. Between children and adults, people always waver and spend their "adolescence." I am no exception. Through writing this book, I feel like I have grown a lot. It has allowed me to see myself from all directions—up, down, left, right, front, and back. Now, I am very different from the person I was back then. My perception of adulthood is also beginning to change. Although there have been many unpleasant experiences and I have struggled in pain every time, I have always forced myself to face reality seriously and never avoided it. Perhaps I took many detours, but I have always hoped to be an "I myself."