In my head I know that it's a good thing that we're apart now. If you gave up after the hits we took you wouldn't have been able to handle the rest of what life would throw at us.
That doesn't stop me from wondering though, what if the succession of sucker punches that life hit us with had been a little more spread out, instead of one after another, would we have made it? If you and I hadn't been dealing with other things, would we have been able to stick it out through the extraneous things?
I wonder at all of these things. But in the end, after a couple of years of saying "i love you", when i Actually Needed You, those words and feelings that you claimed to have dried up. You sloughed them off like a snake shedding a layer of dead skin, and slithered on to your next target.
The next time you tell someone you love them, Mean It.


Anonymous
4/09/2009
12:20:00 AM

My foreign language teacher used to say "you don't air your dirty laundry in public." I ought to remember that more often. It only creates more problems to advertise your relationship troubles.


Anonymous
11:31:00 AM

I vote to change the "topics" so we have fewer ones with only 1 post attached to them.
Why? Well, let's see:
"House" seems like a topic people will post about often.
"Dead babies" ???
"Wisdom Teeth"

How about fitting those into broader topics. Maybe "pimples" could fit into "body image"?
"Dead Babies" into "joke"?

Maybe I'm way out of line but, I think that a little fixing of our topics would help people who search through them.
There are way too many.

Anonymous
08:04:00 PM

Mind your own damn business.


Anonymous
09:01:00 AM

this is an interesting blog and idea. kudos to the originators.

unfortunately, i have put my teenage years behind me. i miss them. i miss the feeling. so many thoughts and emotions, from so many different directions, about so many different subjects, ALL pulling at you simultaneously.

great eFing times.

now, seeing as this is supposed to be centered around teen angst and drama, i'd like to comment on a couple of the major themes. y'know, having recently gone through them myself, emerging out the other side in your mid 20s as an adult who's first question always will be: "what happened?"

love. the gravity of love when you're a teenager cannot be emphasized enough. just about every one has some form of entanglement with it at one point or another. there obviously are endless things i can talk about here but the main thing to remember (incidentally to the mind of the teenager this seems impossible) is that it will PASS! gauran-fucking-teed. if love is not a source of misery or anxiety for you, then all the better. but not another minute should be wasted dwelling and sulking and writing sad poetry. do not feed your "broken" heart. you're a teenager. you're feared, envied, and revered. start to act like it!

drugs. do them. try them. be responsible. know your source, substance, and body, but don't be afraid. circumstances and environment are always important when trying things for the first time. be with people you know and trust. plan things out. don't let buzzwords like 'brain damage' and 'overdose' scare you. walking the 'straight line' will prove to be a detriment to your mental and psychological growth in the long run. drugs will help with the expansion of your consiousness. ideas, beliefs, morality--everything will be fine-tuned. be smart. do some research. talk to people who've had experience. KNOW YOUR BODY. KNOW YOUR SUBSTANCE. KNOW YOUR SOURCE.. and do not abstain from taking drugs.

the future. relax. it's coming. way too much anxiety about college and careers and 'what are you gonna do when you grow up?' i have a news flash for anyone who is confused about how to answer that question: you don't ever really grow up. things simply change, mature, and evolve. a big mistake is thinking that you need to know now what it is you want to do. an even bigger mistake is propelling yourself in a particular career direction without being certain of what you want. to HELL with what people think. (again, difficult to accept, but true) don't involve yourself in something that you don't have passion for, and don't lie to yourself! don't deny the reality of your feelings. don't be afraid to say you don't know. you must necessarily not know. it's only normal to not know. you will suffer great misery in the long run if you realiz that which you have dedicated so much of your life and time to has always just been a front, and not what you've truly wanted. WAIT. figure it out. don't be rushed by your peers and surroundings. relax. the future will come and you will be ready for it.

hmmmm. i feel like i am definitely ranting. haha. perhaps i should stop. this might have been for my benefit only. hope someone reads it. hope it helps.

life is a game.
so relax,
take it easy,
and play.


Anonymous
08:31:00 PM

you know I don't like to listen to other peoples advice. not because I am too proud, but because far too often people tell you to do something that really just serves their own purposes.


Anonymous
01:07:00 AM

It's a beautiful, glorious day in Raleigh. Go out and enjoy it.

But take a jacket :)


Anonymous
09:19:00 AM

Heres a secret, that you all should benifit from.

ok, so one year ago when I was 17, I met this girl in an online forum. We started talking on aim and stuff, and I learned she lived two states away from me, and she told me she was 16, we became good friends,then one day she told me she 'loved me', no joke, i was a little a freaked out by that and thats when i started to not take things seriously, she sent me her pic and asked for mine, jokingly, i sent her a fake one, then i started telling her i was falling for her too,
just to see where it would go, we exchanged phone numbers, and started texting and calling eachother, she was crazy, she'd call me at 1 in the morning to have phone sex or sometimes cry to me about her family issues, and at those times i gave her the best advice and never lead her in the wrong direction. then one day she told she wasnt 16, she was only 14, so i became even more freaked out, at this point this had been going on for about 7 months, and i thought it was time to call it quits, so i told her the truth about everything, and she started crying and all but after a little while she said she didn't care, she'd call me in the middle of the night to seduce to have phone sex, but id say no and hang up, and then she stoped everything stopped, and i started to miss her, which came to me as a surprise, so a month later i called her, and said i missed her, and then it was all back to 'normal' once again, we made a deal that one of us would come to visit the other over summer, after 3 months , i realized no this really isnt right at all, and just like that one day i stopped replying to her texts,calls, emails, i changed my number, changed my aim, but till this day time to time, 8 months later, i still get emails from her asking me why i stopped just like that without any explanation.


ive stopped going to any online forums, chat rooms whatever, and the moral of the story is DONT TRUST STRANGERS ONLINE


Anonymous
05:10:03 PM

To quote The Parent Trap:
"You don't always have to be so brave."

Don't run from the ones who can help you.


Anonymous
10:55:17 PM

Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.


dittolove6
11:17:36 PM

If you have been hurt, bullied, abused, raped, then

please
please
please

TELL.


Anonymous
11:17:42 PM

I'd like to get to know you better. Take the hint.


Anonymous
08:51:54 PM

I, at a visit to your site, read the pleas for enlightenment on the subject of philosophy, as well as the discussion about ID.
Although I perhaps am not qualified to suggest this answer, being from a significantly different locale, I will walk into the agora of Socrates nonetheless.
You create and govern your own reality through reason. You may percieve the outside world through your senses, but the way you choose to interpret the outside world literally holds sway over all of your reality, which is different from anyone else's.
Years ago, people believed in ghosts as an explanation for phenomena around them. They would point to events that were cohesive with this theory, and ignore those events that went against their theory to the point of oblivion. Are the laws of physics any different in their purpose?
We believe things to be true because our reason can affirm their validity. Our faculty of reason is what dictates how we understand the world, and our perception of reality completely depends on reason, and not so much on our senses.
If you choose to believe that God or philosophy exist, then they will.Your reality depends on nobody but yourself, and if you allow these concepts into your reason, then they will appear in your reality.
Choose wisely


Anonymous
08:35:44 PM

I'm giving myself away with this post, but too bad.

Have you guys heard of the teenage boy who's being charged with second degree murder because he supplied the drugs to a girl who died over an overdose?

Yeah. Think of that next time you decide that doing drugs is so damn cool.


Anonymous
10:32:30 PM

Can I suggest
that you invest
in something more
than hopelessness
before you learn that
the ride
is over


Anonymous
01:05:18 PM

I love Tyler forever....I loved him since I was 8 and now im 13 almost 14 I dont know what to do...any advice send a email to Sady_lady27@yahoo.com ..thanks!


Taylin
12:39:32 AM

A word of warning: A girl recently has randomly informed me that she's had a crush on me for a while now. I was /pretty/ good friends with her but this was completely out of the blue. I just don't see it going anywhere. Now I've been avoiding her like the plague (I actaully ran from her before she saw me this morning) becasue I don't want to hurt her feelings.

Before you go out and reveal those deepest desires, weigh the odds and use extreme caution. Do you really want to risk your friendship?

Anonymous
09:06:46 PM