All In

Being a twenty one-year-old instructor gives me a very unique advantage that most young people my age never get to experience. Because I’m twenty I’m naturally capable of seeing and understanding things from a very young perspective. I understand how young kids and adults think because I am one. Being an instructor however also gives me the rare ability to see things from a “grown up” point of view as well.

            I’ve heard it said before that our college and high school years are some of the hardest as well as some of the best years of our lives. Parents often times feel that they know and understand what their children are going through during those years because they themselves went through them as well. Whereas the children feel that their parents don’t understand anything about what they’re going through because even though they may have experienced similar things in the past, they aren’t experiencing the exact same things in the exact same time with the exact same circumstances and emotions.

            There is often times a huge gap between generations. Some feel it’s a gap based on maturity. Others feel it’s a gap based on communication. Whatever the case, the fact still remains that young people in our generation often feel alone.

            High school really is some of the hardest years of a young person’s life. Those are the years where they start making themselves into what they hope to be. The people of our generation often feel that they are alone in the things they go through because they know in their heads that their parents can’t relate to them. It doesn’t help matters any that the people in our generation also keep everything secret from one another. Everyone is so worried about their image and reputation that they keep many experiences and emotions locked away where no one can find them.

            Depression, anger, suicide, addictions, sex, love, pain are all very common among the lives of young people in our generation. These are all things that everyone in high school has had to deal with at one point or another. We all go through things that we don’t know how to express to others. While all of these things are the most commonly found in high school, they are also the least talked about.

            The changes that we all go through as people during our high school and college years are some of the biggest and most influential changes of our entire lives. We go through so many emotions and combinations of emotions that often times we find ourselves unable to deal with them.

            A lot of people from both generations helped me in the making of this book and I find it funny that all of them found several things in what I wrote that they can relate to in one way or another. People from our generation and the generation behind us can all relate to the situations and emotions in this book because they either are experiencing them or have experienced them before. People from our parent’s generation and maybe even the generation before them are able to relate to the things in this book because they remember what it was like when their generation was our generation and the gap they felt with their parents.

            The more people open up and express the things they’re feeling and going through, the more we’ll all be able to understand one another better. The people of our generation need to realize that none of them are alone. No matter how private, or insane or scary their situation is, I garuntee there’s someone else out there in the world who is either experiencing the exact same feelings and emotions, or already has. Unfortunately as I stated before, everyone is so afraid of opening up that they lock everything away and keep it a secret. It’s because of that fear that several people go through the same things as each other but never realize it. They always feel alone or misunderstood for no reason.

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