yes, what people said before - tough time of adolescence and really want to live out fantasy, lust, whatever but at the same time having the church or parents inside your head with prohibitions and being caught in this tension, then going ahead anyways and suffering. Makes you never want to be a teenager again, the pressure drives one to seek a way out alternatives like suicide. it seems there is no good answer.
If I could talk to my younger self today i would say just take it easy. Be yourself. Relax, this time will pass. When you get older it will be clearer to you how to be, so don't worry so much about peer pressure from anybody. The church or your parents. Journal for yourself, be yourself, help others. This is a time of learning. forgive yourself and just keep learning, this is a time to learn how to live and think for yourself.
yes, what people said before - tough time of adolescence and really want to live out fantasy, lust, whatever but at the same time having the church or parents inside your head with prohibitions and being caught in this tension, then going ahead anyways and suffering. Makes you never want to be a teenager again, the pressure drives one to seek a way out alternatives like suicide. it seems there is no good answer.
If I could talk to my younger self today i would say just take it easy. Be yourself. Relax, this time will pass. When you get older it will be clearer to you how to be, so don't worry so much about peer pressure from anybody. The church or your parents. Journal for yourself, be yourself, help others. This is a time of learning. forgive yourself and just keep learning, this is a time to learn how to live and think for yourself.