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yolo!

                                                                      YOLO!! What is teenage hood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable behavior—because hey, why not? YOLO! YOLO', meaning You Only Live Once, is a viral quote mostly used by the teenage community. “YOLO”, popularized by the 2011 song " The Motto " by Canadian rapper   Drake , is used as a self explanatory phrase to justify any, let’s say, not so smart activities by many teenagers nowadays . Our generation says, Life is short and we live just once, why not live it to the fullest and have all the fun we can. But it seems that our definition of fun and living to the fullest has broken the socially accepted ones, often inclining to behaviours which harm the person as well as the society. Being a teenager was never easy, the strings of childhood are still attached and we are expected to act and think in a mature way, which give way to an indefinable pressure