this pandemic will end and you’ll claim the window seat in your favorite cafe, stand in a crowd at a concert, visit a museum and make crappy art in the park. sometimes things feel like they’ll go on forever, sometimes bad things feel heavier than good things, sometimes life feels like it’s slowing down and all you’re doing is waiting for the full stop— but just because this hopelessness is all that you’re feeling right now, doesn’t mean that it’s all there is. there’s always more and you will experience that, and you will feel alive again.
The biggest mistake that parents ever make is think that their kids are dumb. Yes, it’s a fact that on account of being older they have relatively more wisdom than us, however it is not true when they say,”you haven’t seen the world yet.” We possibly haven’t experienced the hardships and struggles that our parents did in their young age, yet it is very much untrue that we haven’t seen the negative spheres of life. In their era, depression, psychological disorders, increasing stress, bullying etc were scarcely present, whereas today that’s all that we hear about, especially in the teenage group of children. Their undermining us, telling us that it’s all in our head, brushing off things that they think we’re making up, only if they knew how much it bothers us. By no means am I saying, that there is a lack of good parenting, all I’m saying is that no genuine effort is ever made to fill in the generation gap, that not only distances us from our parents but also leads our parents to misunderstand us in certain important spheres of our lives. If there are any parents out there reading this all I wanna say is, talking to us about our gfs/bfs does make you cool, but what we really want is for you to listen to us when we say we’re feeling low, to appreciate the little things we do that make US feel happy, to not force us to talk when we don’t want to, to make an effort to understand us without us having to go into the labourious details of how our life is coming apart, because if we really knew how to express ourselves, the world would know how we’re dying inside.