1.) i don't want another kid to feel the same way i did.
2.) some kids just really want to be hugged and told that they are loved.
3.) some kids need to know that someone cares about them.
4.) some kids are too sad that they become misunderstood—
5.)—i want to understand.
6.) i want kids to grow up not thinking that they wanted to die every time they woke up.
8.) i want kids to understand that violence will never be the answer—
9.)—nor is self-harm—
10.)—and most especially, not suicide
11.) i want kids to grow up feeling happy with themselves even though the adults around them can't.
12.) i want kids to grow up thinking that they are beautiful and worth every single breath they are given.
13.) i want kids to accept themselves for who they are, not for what their parents want them to be.
14.) i want kids to learn how to love not only others, but especially themselves.
15.) some kids struggle to trust the people around them because of adults (who are supposed to reassure them and make sure they are safe).
16.) living *****, and kids especially need all the help they need.
17.) i want kids to feel hope inside of them—
18.)—to feel like they're living instead of simply existing.
19.) i want them to know that there is and always will be hope for them—
20.)—regardless of grades, race, gender, ****** orientation, age, physical appearance, clothes, hair color, piercings, etc., etc.—
21.) —because those things don't—shouldn't—matter to others at all.
22.) i want kids to feel and know that there is someone who wants to listen to them—
23.)—someone who isn't "too busy for their whininess and angsts".
24.) i want them to feel as comfortable as they are in their own bodies—
25.)—not want them to rip their eyeballs out of their sockets or to starve themselves until their weights drop faster than a rollercoaster because they "weren't good enough".
26.) i don't want them to grow up thinking of "all adults are awful" as an amazing alliteration.
27.) i want them to know they are worth every single day they wake up.
28.) i want them to learn the meaning of "love"—
29.)—agape, most especially.
30.) i want them to believe in themselves.
31.) and i want them to keep on believing in this world.
(because we're all just people broken in many different ways trying to survive in this world, aren't we?)
i've done so many stupid things in high school that i wouldn't have if i received some kind of reassurance that whatever i was doing was right.
some of those stupid things have landed me in the principal's office, the hospital, to a shrink, etc, etc.
the worst thing that can happen to a child is when they stop believing that there is good in this world.
everything will start spiralling downwards from thereon.