The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus “Not me! I didn’t think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.
BEATRICE SPARKSEven my parents treat me like I’m stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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Even my parents treat me like I’m stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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I can’t believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it’s only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.
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They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.
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She didn’t know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
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I pretend I’ve got lots of confidence and I’m a big jock and like that but deep inside I’m a frightened, insecure, can’t-make-it failure.
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I’m partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing.
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