I was hitting the random button again...

[msfledermaus]

...And stumbled onto the LJ of a very depressed junior-high kid.

I'm so grateful I'm 30. Every day I'm alive is a day further away from Junior High. Hang in there, kid...it does get better.

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

The several times I've clicked on random, more often than not I've ended up with a depressed high school student, it's kind of alarming.

I'm glad I was in junior high when I was, rather than now. On top of all the teenage angst and cliques and insecurity, we've now got real hatred, war, and national insecurity. What's that going to do to young people's psyches?

I was 12 the year Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. The U.S. military was heavily engaged in VietNam. These violent actions, although removed from my immediate experience, definitely shaped my thinking and feeling about American social issues. What about the 9-11 terrorist murders and their aftermath, which effects every American, whether they know it yet or not?

Oops, sorry, I'm thinking again, shouldn't do that these days, it's not healthy. :(

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Nono, I like the thinking, you're so good with the thinking:)

I know what I was afraid of as a kid (as were all my classmates) was a nuclear holocaust.
But we all had the comfort that, "Naaah, nobody would be THAT dumb." These kids don't even have that...these are real dangers that they will definitely see fallout from. I worry for my nephew...at least kids are so very very tough in ways that constantly amaze me. that gives me real hope, you know?