When a situation presents itself in our faces and we as teenagers don’t know how to react to it, many times the decision we take is to lock up and don’t let anyone in, why would we? No one seems to understand. And of course they don’t understand, how could they? We are not even capable of finding logical reasoning to the erupting feelings and sudden reactions. Sometimes all we need is being alone with no parents or friends, just by ourselves trying to understand and arrange all the pieces of the puzzle that life throws at us with no warning. This doesn’t mean we don’t find comfort in the arms of our mom or dad or that we don’t need friends, it just means teenagers need time to think things through with no one to be questioning their motivations and moods.
Other times, we just want to scream out the problems and insult the world for putting us in troubling circumstances. There are times where we need someone to talk to, to hold us and say everything will be alright, even if it’s just a lie.
Although we pretend we are strong enough and fix fake smiles upon our faces, no teenager could ever go through life pretending they can do it alone without parents or brothers or friends, no matter how much we can fight or disagree with them. There comes a moment every now and then where in the darkness of our rooms we snuggle up in bed, hugging ourselves, making believe that just for a few instants, we are children again.
