This has no specific age range but is directed more towards those who have not yet been free to make their own decisions.
I want everyone who wants to to live. Especially you my little brothers and sisters. Because you have not yet been able to live your own lives. Have not yet been able to freely choose anything outside the limits placed on you and the strong influences upon your minds and emotions. From your posts many of you have an amazing and solid grasp on life and that would be wasted by you dying and not being able to enrich yourselves with your talents.
Many of you are abused and/or abandoned by your parents. I apologize as a former parent on behalf of all the parents who will not and cannot. My own ways coupled with that of my ex wife was the reason I did not see my son as much as I should have. And you children should not suffer because we do not get along. Even separation and divorce does more harm than good to you young ones. And I think a lot of us do not think about that when we have children. But me of us do and by either irresponsibility or deceit on one or both parents parts children are born. And instead of focusing on you we put our own needs and pain in front of yours.
My son happened to have a wonderful stepfather. And for that I was grateful. But many of you have stepparents or even parents who do not even take the time to listen. To care. To support you in your pain. To find out what is truly wrong instead of ignoring it or assuming something preconceived. To not recognize that bullying is a real problem and that the range of mental disorders and social anxiety are issues that take more than drugs and a few visits to therapists to fix.
And to those of you who are sexually abused, words cannot express my compassion. Because that is something that stays with you for a lifetime even though you may get counseled for it. Even though you may take things to lessen the damage. It is still there and it affects you. Affects your ability to trust and to love yourself even more so than others. And the other forms of physical and verbal abuse are no less scarring to the spirit.
As well as those of you who have to take on adult responsibilities in a culture where that is not the most practical thing for the health of children. Being coerced to have to help support the family in certain ways robs you of your time to grow ad explore.
And sometimes we parents have our own unresolved mental issues that make us less able to care for and support you. Because when some of us grew up, therapy was not really a thing that was looked upon as a solution. Things were just internalized and swept away which damaged a lot of us. This is not an excuse but an explanation. And some of you inherited our issues through nature and/or nurture.
I wish I could take you all and erase the pain and wipe away your tears. To give you a clean slate and a worry free childhood to frolic, be mischievous, get into adventures and learn things in your own time. to be gently ushered into the responsibilities od adulthood gradually so that the lessons flow rather than stall.
From a former father to all of you children,I do not know you personally. But I do care. And I do hope that life delivers you from your pain and trials so that you can heal and go on and have as much happiness and contentment that is possible.
For those of you whose parents do care, try to relate to them what is going on so they can take steps to help you and ease your problems. I know many of you are not comfortable but at least try your best. And explain everything because they cannot help you heal fully unless they know everything.
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Bravo, U.N. Owen.
Causeway,
It hurts my heart that all these kids are on here hating themselves and life because of what others have done to them.
What kind of world do we have when our children have given up on life before they have even lived?
I just wish I knew a way to fix it all across the board.
Wow. I find this extremly inspriational and true. I wish my parents could read this, and maybe they would rethink a lot of things. You seriously are a moving person. I just wish we could all just live in peace.
Cheers,
Holly
Wow, U.N., it is so good of you to post this. I hope all of the younger posters see this. So very true.
For a moment here and there, here at this moment, It is the kind of world that has posts with insights and admissions like yours which were not available when I was young and groaning up. From one grain of sand to another, aint life a beach? 🙂
Un you are truely an amazing person with great insight i love your post i hope they all read it..
this is amazing .. thank you very much .
thanks UN, as a younger poster, i see this a uplifting
something that everyone should see
Thank you U.N., well written post as always, but also thank you for writing on this topic.
Truly.
EXCELLENT post. It needs to be where everybody new can read it first, if they choose to.
As a 15 year old who has hated life for about a year now, I can’t thank you enough for posting these beautiful words. They are truly uplifting and inspiring. You are such a talented writer, especially when your posts are directed to people of younger ages. Thank you do much for writing this. It’s appreciated.
Righteously said, Owen, my thumbs up to you.
We all are hearts of young, carefree and with genuineness deep within.
The world is not supposed to be like that !
And it’s happening everywhere.
Here’s the news I’ve just come across. (with 3w at front)
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100113/Rush-hour-commuters-slammed-stepping-Oliver-Tiplay-14-collapsed-platform.html
Are we a part making up of this world ?
Instead of torturing ourself, we see unjust things all around, we shall speak up, voice our opinions, so we stand.
Of the past few months in my city, I saw injustice I couldn’t stand, where the majority of people (the effect of flock) agreed to condemning some violator of law to unreasonable penalty, without knowing some cunning government officials were behind all that exercising “killing a chicken to scare the monkey” to maintain another entirely different policy as a determent.
Another case being that 1 billion US dollars at least to enforce a property to be possessed as a monument of antiquity, nevertheless neglecting the owner’s wish of not even selling. Just a power play shrouded with glossy public interest, and the big spend of revenues and moral issues were all ignored.
Therefore, I found some specific controversial articles but civilized news-forums where the government officials, or congressmen or dignitaries will read, there I gave my comments with the most irrefutable reasons in a civilized way addressed.
Soon favorable comments following after me, and I succeed, not long then the prisoner was freed, and the possession project was dismissed, and the people just found the outcome strange, all out of the blue.
If I can do it, so can you !
Make the difference, especially those around you !
(But please be aware that evil-loathers are all around the web, finding any crevice to break into and so attack to squeeze juice)
Just follow the saying goes, “two wrongs do not make a right”.