Growing Up

There’s these ridiculous people who carry on with these dumb games, making this poor guy bend over backwards, to show he cares after one of their circus shows...

At some point you must realize it's never going to be the same. • You'll never feel quite the same, your skins not quite as soft. • Your hearts not quite...

At the very end of my toddler years and the start of my adolescence, I longed the day I was to be introduced to my teenage years. I was ecstatic about the privi...

At the very end of my toddler years and the start of my adolescence, I longed the day I was to be introduced to my teenage years. I was ecstatic about the privi...

I should never have been called mature when I was a teenager. I know those comments were well-intentioned, but they ended up causing me so much grief overall. W...

I guess it can be said that I was a gifted kid growing up. I said my first words at 5 months, was speaking in complete sentences by age 2 years, and taught myse...

I don't like my birthday because I don't want to grow up. I'm already 17 but I still feel like I'm 11i guess that's because when I experienced trauma that wasn'...

A 19 year old girl rolls over on her dorm bed as her alarm blares. Her phone is on the floor, knocked off of the bed. Her roommate has already gotten up for the...

I never expected to live this long. I never wanted to. I begged and I prayed not to. Now I'm mature and alone and I hate being alive. Many others would regret s...

Of course I had my days of being a little heathen or hellion or whatever. I did things no shouldn't made some trouble. But never NEVER ANYTHING THAT AFFECTED OT...