We The Youth

Hiah!  This post is by a friend of mine, a fellow youth and writer by the name of Lavender Bleu. Her blog is   Always Write The Good Write , so go check her out and show a youth some support once you're done here!  As always, you're welcome and encouraged to leave a comment with your own experiences/thoughts/questions, just remember to stay respectful. ^-^  And now, I leave you in Lavender Bleu's capable hands. Enjoy! - EJ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~  Hi everyone, I’m Lavender Bleu!  Before we get around to the important stuff (which is why you’re here) I figure I ought to introduce myself a little more. As I already said, I’m Lavender Bleu. I normally don’t blog about this kind of thing (my own blog is about writing) but I really love what E. J. is doing, and she was nice enough to let me guest post, so here I am! ^-^ This is pretty much a response to her post about youth group, more or less, it’s to help contrast her experience with mine. So! Let’s get to what you came for. First o

  Welcome back to WTY! I mention the basics of why I started WTY in my Qs&As tab, but what I didn't go into was why I'm so passionate about this. And youth group has a very big part in that. For my non-Christian readers, you may be wondering "what's a youth group"? A youth group is basically all of the youth of a church (ages vary, but mine is 13-18 year olds) gathering on a day (mine is Sundays) and playing and hanging out at the church with a lesson from the youth pastor (a pastor who specializes in corralling teenagers, basically). The first part of this post is why I stopped going. The next half will be how it relates to WTY. The youth pastor was always changing My church went through three youth pastors throughout my time at youth group. Each time you got to know one, began to trust them, began to feel comfortable enough to be honest and open up like you're supposed to be able to do,   they would leave and you'd have to restart the process. It was

  Heyo! Post #1 of my new blog, here we go!  This first post is targeted towards one of the younger age groups that WTY covers; the young teens. 13, do be exact.  The age 13 is a hectic  one. I didn't realize it until coming out of it, but looking back 13 was when I had the most  loneliness that I didn't know how to handle, it's when I first got smacked in the face with anxiety, it's when I was in-and-out of friendships, and it's when I was perhaps most paranoid about what people thought of me and when I thought the world was against me, basically.  Now, not everyone's experiences are gonna be the exact same way. But most previous 13 year olds that I've talked to, and most current 13 year olds, can all agree that the age 13 was terrible. And that makes sense to me.  13 is when you're just stepping into teenhood, which is just  before you step into young adult hood, which is just  before you step into actual adulthood. 13 is when you're body and mind