Amazing little article! It's true that the society and media had great harm for us! Nowadays what the society promotes is all about sexuality, gossip, hatred and scandals, guiding teenagers toward the opposite direction of truth- love, peace, joy, kindness, purity, self-control......

I've been looking for ways to stay uncontrolled and uninfluenced by the society all the time since I'm a teenager, since its harms are way greater than its benefits. But since we're in the society, we're in the world, and it is impossible for us to literally 'get out' of it, we would have to first be aware of the right and wrong and view things critically and judge with your own opinion, instead of following what most people/ peers think. Don't be afraid to be yourself, like what you really like and stay away from bad influences, even if it cost you things like friendship, acceptance and popularity.

Here's a quote from Emerson's Self-Reliance, hope it helps you:" It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after own own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Love, 

Flora <3