Thanks but No Thanks

Here is something I have decided.

I feel like High School is one of those places I so desperately want to be done with and out of. Yet it is also something I hope I never lose sight of.
See some people (especially the older population) like to tell me how dumb high school problems are. They say how small and insignificant teenager issues are. They say how ignorant we are to the real stuff we will get to when we are older.
But let me ask you.... does knowing that make a teenagers problems any less significant?

Nope! 

I just hope I never forget how real my problems seem when I've been stuck in them.
Sure, my problems may not be huge or putting a lot on the line but is telling me that going to be making things better? 

When I am older and wiser and more experienced with these things I hope I never forget what its like to be my age.
I hope I never tell a high schooler how much they don't know or how much they haven't even scratched the surface of life's difficulties.
Because that Doesn't Matter.
That's NOT helping anything.
and its not the point. 

That doesn't lessen the issue they're having knowing their problems are tiny compared to what they will face in the future.
Its not helping anything because in the moment it is very real to them.
It will only make them feel worse about their issue.
I pray I never forget what its like to not know. 

I'm not saying adults don't have much more to handle or that all their problems are blown out of proportion.
I'm just saying that teenagers need your help. 

Instead of trying to scare them or brush them off, why don't you help them deal with their issues in a healthy way before they even get to the big stuff. Help them be equipped before its too late.
Remember what is was like.
Its real.



"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."- Mark Twain