Everything changes for me

[elephantnose3334]

My teenage-hood (teenager, 13-17 years old) is almost about to end this year in December. What should I do in my final year as a teenager? Anyways, a great big world lies ahead of me. It may take time to adapt, but it will be worth it. It's not the end of the road on the forum yet, but when I get a new laptop, I may leave the forum because I don't know how to move my account from my old laptop to a new one. And yeah, I should take care of my tetras first. Adapting to being an adult may take time and I may not move out until I'm 19 or 20 years old. I want to stay with my parents until I'm fully fledged. I don't like moving out because my current home with my parents is the only one I know a decade ago and that I'm scared that I will maintain a big house alone.

I have lost some relatives along the way, but many others are still living. The family's granny died peacefully in 2020 in an aged care home in Mandurah and we keep her ashes in the jewellery cupboard in the dining room. I didn't join the forum at the time and went to her funeral probably a week or two after she died. It was sad, and I don't want it to happen to Grandad too. He was born in Halloween 1945 and lives alone in his own house in Bibra Lake. He picks me up from school sometimes and would allow me to stay in his house for a bit. His last dogs (Labrador Retrievers) died probably in 2015-2016 so he doesn't want any pets to keep him company anymore. The cousins are now doing work, one of them working at a Maccas' near his house. The other moved house further away than the other one's and I don't know what job he has. Grandpa and Grandma (mum's parents) is still living in an aged home in Queensland after returning from Perth to stay with us during the Christmas period and arrived back to Queensland after Jan 7.

School was different in 2020 due to the Covid-19 lockdowns happening in Perth and the rest of Australia. I was a Year 8 student at the time and I had to stay at home in March to June and do some online classes. I did not keep fish for the last 4.5 years (until recently in 2023) and I wanted to focus on art. Bleh, I did still life in the first section of art class. Now, question time.

I do not like drawing anything else (landscapes without animals, still life, portraits of people) other than animals. But people portraits are not my cup of tea. The Lester Prize only wants people portraits to be entered, not animal portraits. Why is the Lester Prize and the Archibald Prize only focusing on people portraiture? Do they only enter people portraits drawn from life? I dream to be a fish artist one day and I will enjoy my childhood until the end. How do I get my dream to come true?

Everything changes over time and I will change too.

 

[Tacocat]

but when I get a new laptop, I may leave the forum because I don't know how to move my account from my old laptop to a new one

You can just log in again on the new laptop on a browser. If you remember your username and password there should be no biggie.

My teenage-hood (teenager, 13-17 years old) is almost about to end this year in December. What should I do in my final year as a teenager?

I'm also in my last year of being a youth, and my birthday is coming up soon and I'm not ready for it. What I did was I just did the things that I enjoy. Hang out more with my friends and family, enjoy the freedom of not having as much stress as it will later in life. Also make sure to sign up to random programs that look like fun. Volunteering, meeting new people, while you still have time as a kid do it. You'll be able to do it afterwards, but once you're 18+ the adulting starts to take over and things become bland, so make the most of what you have. If you're not moving out till you're 20 then you still have time to do the things, it's just that people will hold you to higher standards as an adult. Don't let that stop you. Also enjoy school, because now that I'm out I kind of miss being able to hang out with people my age and just roam, while also having looming stress.

Also take this advice with a grain of salt as I'm still a teen and I don't have experience yet I'm just imagining things.

 

[Seisage]

once you're 18+ the adulting starts to take over and things become bland, so make the most of what you have.

I disagree wholeheartedly.

I made the transition from teen to adult not THAT long ago, and I have to say, everyone fearmongers about growing up and becoming an adult. Everyone fearmongers about aging these days. Life is what you make of it. I'm having plenty of fun in my adulthood. Of course it's not perfect. There's a lot of stress involved and you have more responsibilities, but I hang out with friends, I watch movies, play games, housesit and play with peoples' cats. From a day to day life perspective, it's really not that much different from being a teenager except I don't have to be in school for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. And I'm also a much different person. A better person, in my opinion. I wasn't a bad person as a teen by any means, but I am so glad to be far removed from that life now. I did not have a bad or traumatic experience as a teenager, and yet no one could pay me any sum of money to go back to being one.

So, yes, enjoy being a teen while you can, but don't dread becoming an adult either. I personally like it a lot better.

 

[JuiceBox52]

I do not like drawing anything else (landscapes without animals, still life, portraits of people) other than animals. But people portraits are not my cup of tea. The Lester Prize only wants people portraits to be entered, not animal portraits. Why is the Lester Prize and the Archibald Prize only focusing on people portraiture? Do they only enter people portraits drawn from life? I dream to be a fish artist one day and I will enjoy my childhood until the end. How do I get my dream to come true?

Find animal based drawings competitions. Just as there are prizes and competitions for different types of photography (architectural, animals, landscapes, portraits)
There are different kinds for art. You just have to look

As an artist who has gone down the path of professionally doing art, you need to just work hard, get your art out there, practice and practice more, and search out the right places (prizes, markets, groups) for your niche

 

[Colin_T]

Your Fish Forum account is on the forum's server, not on your computer. So you can login to your account from any computer using any web browser as long as you know your username and password. When you upgrade to a newer computer, you simply open the new web browser, go to Fish Forums, enter your username and password, and you will be right back here where you were before.

You don't just become an adult and stop being a teen when you turn 18. You remain a teen until you become mature enough to be considered an adult. Most adults are still mentally in their teens so it's not like you go to bed as a 17 year old teenager and wake up an 18 year old adult. Life will be exactly the same except you have a few more things to do (work, pay taxes, get a driver's license and vote). Besides that, you will feel exactly the same as you do now (from an age perspective).

As for moving out, there's no hard and fast rules about leaving home at 18. And in this day and age, with the housing crisis in Australia, I would advise you to stay at home for the next 5 years until the housing crisis is over. If you can find a place during that time and it is affordable, by all means move out, but you will be lucky to find a 1 bedroom unit in a slummy area for less than $400 a week currently.

I am in Gosnells (one of the lower class suburbs with a high crime rate) in a tiny 1 bedroom unit and pay $300 a week and my unit is NRAS listed (federal government supported) because I'm on a pension. There are very few rental properties available anywhere in the country (hence the reason there is over 100,000 homeless people in Australia today), and any property that becomes available will have hundreds, if not thousands of applications. And the rent will start from x amount, usually $350 a week, and the highest bidder wins. So unless you have 2 incomes and have $400+ a week to spend on rent, stay home or find a friend you can rent with.

You might not like living with your parents but they have a house where you can live and not pay rent. This gives you a chance to get a job, save money, and learn to be an adult. Then when the housing crisis is no longer an issue, go out and rent. In the mean time, ask your parents to teach you how to do household chores (assuming you don't already know), and learn how to take care of their house so when you do move out, you will know how to care for a rental property.

 

[elephantnose3334]

Your Fish Forum account is on the forum's server, not on your computer. So you can login to your account from any computer using any web browser as long as you know your username and password. When you upgrade to a newer computer, you simply open the new web browser, go to Fish Forums, enter your username and password, and you will be right back here where you were before.

You don't just become an adult and stop being a teen when you turn 18. You remain a teen until you become mature enough to be considered an adult. Most adults are still mentally in their teens so it's not like you go to bed as a 17 year old teenager and wake up an 18 year old adult. Life will be exactly the same except you have a few more things to do (work, pay taxes, get a driver's license and vote). Besides that, you will feel exactly the same as you do now (from an age perspective).

As for moving out, there's no hard and fast rules about leaving home at 18. And in this day and age, with the housing crisis in Australia, I would advise you to stay at home for the next 5 years until the housing crisis is over. If you can find a place during that time and it is affordable, by all means move out, but you will be lucky to find a 1 bedroom unit in a slummy area for less than $400 a week currently.

I am in Gosnells (one of the lower class suburbs with a high crime rate) in a tiny 1 bedroom unit and pay $300 a week and my unit is NRAS listed (federal government supported) because I'm on a pension. There are very few rental properties available anywhere in the country (hence the reason there is over 100,000 homeless people in Australia today), and any property that becomes available will have hundreds, if not thousands of applications. And the rent will start from x amount, usually $350 a week, and the highest bidder wins. So unless you have 2 incomes and have $400+ a week to spend on rent, stay home or find a friend you can rent with.

You might not like living with your parents but they have a house where you can live and not pay rent. This gives you a chance to get a job, save money, and learn to be an adult. Then when the housing crisis is no longer an issue, go out and rent. In the mean time, ask your parents to teach you how to do household chores (assuming you don't already know), and learn how to take care of their house so when you do move out, you will know how to care for a rental property.

Yes. I will probably stay in my parents' home for the next 5 years or until the housing crisis is over. @Colin_T, did you do art once in your lifetime? I mentioned people portraits and they're not my cup of tea. But they win big indeed. Art could help you during those bad times. Animals are better than people in my opinion in terms of art. That begs me the question: Why does the Lester Prize and the Archibald Prize (over east) only do portraits of people? The Lester Prize is the most expensive ($50,000) art prize in Perth.

 

[Colin_T]

I did art in school, making clay ashtrays and sticking coloured paper on paper. I didn't really care for art. I did some nice oriental art in high school, which looked good but when I went to pick it up after school, someone had taken it.

The closest I come to doing art is photography. I have taken lots of pictures over the years and entered some in photographic competitions. I got places for a couple but the judges weren't doing their jobs properly (in my opinion).
One example of this was a colour portait section and the winning photograph was black & white. I questioned how a black & white picture could even be included in the colour section, let alone win it. I was told the judge's decision is final.

Another example was a photo of a group of pelicans swimming along in a line. It was a really good picture but the end pelican had its tail cut off and wasn't included in the photo. That picture won even though there were better pictures in the same category. If the end pelican had its tail, I wouldn't have minded if it won because it would have been a great picture, but when photographing animals and birds, you need to have the entire creature in the picture if that is what you are showing. you can't have one bird missing 1/4 of its body.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. I like certain picture, painting, sculptures, etc, and other people might not like what I like. I never really cared for portraits, they were so boring and lifeless. At least a picture of a dog jumping or a duck swimming has something else besides the upper half of a human sitting there.

As for the art competitions you mentioned, I don't know anything about them. It really doesn't interest me that much. I have seen really good paintings and really weird painting and whilst I wouldn't mine hanging some decent art, I'm not spending $50,000 on a picture.

 

[elephantnose3334]

I did art in school, making clay ashtrays and sticking coloured paper on paper. I didn't really care for art. I did some nice oriental art in high school, which looked good but when I went to pick it up after school, someone had taken it.

The closest I come to doing art is photography. I have taken lots of pictures over the years and entered some in photographic competitions. I got places for a couple but the judges weren't doing their jobs properly (in my opinion).
One example of this was a colour portait section and the winning photograph was black & white. I questioned how a black & white picture could even be included in the colour section, let alone win it. I was told the judge's decision is final.

Another example was a photo of a group of pelicans swimming along in a line. It was a really good picture but the end pelican had its tail cut off and wasn't included in the photo. That picture won even though there were better pictures in the same category. If the end pelican had its tail, I wouldn't have minded if it won because it would have been a great picture, but when photographing animals and birds, you need to have the entire creature in the picture if that is what you are showing. you can't have one bird missing 1/4 of its body.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. I like certain picture, painting, sculptures, etc, and other people might not like what I like. I never really cared for portraits, they were so boring and lifeless. At least a picture of a dog jumping or a duck swimming has something else besides the upper half of a human sitting there.

As for the art competitions you mentioned, I don't know anything about them. It really doesn't interest me that much. I have seen really good paintings and really weird painting and whilst I wouldn't mine hanging some decent art, I'm not spending $50,000 on a picture.

@Colin_T The $50,000 is the prize money for the Lester Prize. My apologies for the earlier response. Entry fee for LP is $45. You can read about the Lester Prize here: https://www.lesterprize.com/

 

[GaryE]

Numbers are just numbers. I have known 30 year olds who acted like they were 14, and 14 year olds who were into things in a mature way. Nothing changes when you're 18 except a few social responsibilities. I mean, if you commit a crime you go to adult jail, and you vote and here at least, you can go to bars.

Becoming an adult is a slower process for most - some never get there. I think we could even debate what an adult is. Maybe the only thing we can say for sure is it's expensive.

 

[Essjay]

Your Fish Forum account is on the forum's server, not on your computer. So you can login to your account from any computer using any web browser as long as you know your username and password. When you upgrade to a newer computer, you simply open the new web browser, go to Fish Forums, enter your username and password, and you will be right back here where you were before.

You know your user name and if you've forgotten your password, just log out, go to the log in page and click on 'forgot your password'. You'll be sent a new password to your registered email address, log in with that, then go to your account and change that new password to something you want. And don't forget it this time

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

I never did grow up...only out