If I Were In Your Shoes...

Dear El G. Nie,

I’m surrounded by the” hardest people in the world to talk to”!  It always seems like I’m being judged by the slightest problem I tell them, whether it’s something that happened to me or with someone around me.  I find that I can never really have a down-to-earth conversation with them.  That’s why I think they don’t know me.  They think they do because as my so called friends, they’re supposed to.  Sometimes I wish I had someone I could relate to.  Someone whom I could trust and confide in and receive advice ( not accusations or insults).  I feel like nobody understands me.  I always think I’m a mixed up person.  Sometimes it seems like I’m in a world of my own.  Sometimes I get so angry that I just think about things and hold my anger inside.  Sometimes I just want to cry because everything is so unfair.  I never want anyone to take pity on me.  I don’t like when people laugh about my name or make a joke at my expense.  If it’s funny, I’ll laugh too but when it’s just plain stupidity, I get angry.  Sometimes I just want to tell people off so bad.  But I never really could because I know that I will be sorry for it later.  Sometimes there is no turning back.

Another thing I hate is when people don’t take me serious when I want them to.  I also hate it when guys like you and they always bother you.  You only want a friendship and they want something else.  When they know you just want to be friends, they try to disrespect you and put you down. ( Always in a friendship with a guy, I let them know that’s all we could be.)

I’m writing to you because I feel like I could just get this off my chest.  Am I really all mixed up?

-Mixed Up Gal-

Dear Mixed Up Gal,

I can understand you feeling the way you do if you say your own friends are hard to talk to.  Thanks for taking out the time to write to me.  You need to think positive about your self and reflect who you really are.  You are not the only teen in this world that has felt this way.  Surround yourself with people who are motivators and first of all, feel good about yourself.  I am sure you have special qualities that set you out of a crowd.  I will be praying for you and your “mixed up” thoughts.  I am not saying that in a bad way but just know that it’s our thoughts that make us feel mixed up.  Feel free to write back whenever you just want to let things out and not hold your anger inside.  God bless.

-El. G. Nie