Influence is such a vague term.
Is influence how large a net you cast to the greatest number of people, or the depth of impact you leave on an individual?
Time Magazine released their list of The 30 Most Influential Teenagers. Time's belief seems to be of the casted-net variety.
The list includes a half dozen budding fashion designers, a few Youtube and Vine celebrities, two Kardashians that go by Jenner, a couple political-ish kids who'll probably change their philosophy by the time they're 20, a chef just past puberty who charges $160 for a meal, a few athletes who probably have overbearing parents, a handful of actors, a smattering of singers who are more overdubbed than capable of singing and...one teen who sort of/kind of writes (...on a website about video games mainly).
One.
Out of thirty teenagers in this world, the influence of writing is overshadowed by two Kardashians, fashion designers, and Youtube chuckly-ha-has. Just one kid who writes about video games--but more kids who have appeared on the Disney Channel.
Take Mary Shelley. Take Percy Bysshe Shelley. Take Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, and William Cullen Bryant.
You know what they had in common? What they had in common with dozens others throughout the years? They all wrote poems or novels before the age of 20.
Although, admittedly, only one--Arthur Rimbaud--would've appeared on the Disney Channel if he was alive today. So fresh-faced and a teen heartthrob!
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