Young Folks

What is it, that when you're young you have an insatiable desire for acceptance? I can't sit here and tell you I'm above it, because that would be a demon lie, but at least I recognize it...as if that means anything. Maybe it's not just young people, maybe it's society in general, either way it's stressful. I've found myself in a new light, a new world, much different and much faster then my previous planet.

When you're young, you're concerns lye in what your peers think of you, what you wear, who you talk to, what you do, where you go, how you talk..........this could take all day. Basically, you may be an individual and all that jazz, but you're under constant scrutiny and comparison. It's absolutely vicious and corrupt. I know your mentors will tell you to accept yourself, for who and what you are, but it's so hard to do when you don't know what that is. In this world of constant judgment and ignorance, that are often mixed together, you get lost and become a battered soul. Insecure is an understatement. We become frail and pliable, and gradually develop into broken and bitter. It's a heinous crime that we unknowingly afflict on each other, and it' will continue.

I would like to believe maturity and wisdom will sweep these absurd complications away, but somehow that seems unlikely.