Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Blackberry 4

And everybody always wants me to do better than I am doing.  They say it's because they want the best for me.  But it doesn't feel good.  The older I get, the further behind I am.  I don't have enough friends.  I haven't finished enough homework.  My room is not clean enough.  I wasn't polite enough to my parents' guests....people don't like me enough....I'd rather be disliked for who I am as a person than loved for some projected image of who I am supposed to be.   (spoken by Kati and Josh from The Blackberry Bush by David Housholder, pp 27,139)

Simply teenage angst or does it ring a bell in your adult soul?

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