I was among the crowds in Tsim Sha Tsui during the New Year's Eve celebrations. Usually I am very well-behaved, but I ran wild on that occasion.
My friends and I did so many things that we would not normally do. We pretended we were going to throw each other into the water and sang silly songs. Everybody was doing it, having fun, lost in the excitement.
Like many others, I thought: 'It's New Year's Eve and I'm gonna have fun!' When do I get to hang out at midnight with a bunch of friends? It feels good to enjoy the fun that can only be experienced when I am young. We cannot do so when we are old with lots of responsibilities.
Our generation has been labelled unimaginative and rebellious. Nevertheless, teenagers do not enjoy much freedom in Hong Kong.
We do not have a chance to voice our opinions, and even if we do, our opinions are considered immature.
The education system makes us memorise rather than think. Where does our intelligence go? We are smart in inventing ways to sneak out at midnight and go home without anybody knowing.
You may call it rebellious but it requires thinking.
