by Caetlyn R Campbell

Created on: August 13, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

The Inner Thoughts of a Fourteen Year Old

Young teenage girls are a cauldron of seething emotions. We never know from minute to minute whether we are going to confront the comfortable and happy girl that likes to cuddle or the screaming, crying creature who shouts "I hate you forever." With hormones careening through their bodies, living with the young teenager is like riding a roller coaster.

What on earth goes through their minds? Are they thinking or just feeling? Goodness knows you can't ask them. Sullen has nothing on a fourteen year old that feels that you are prying into their business. Occassionally, if we're lucky, we get a brief glimpse into what's going on.

We often say that things are so different, more difficult for kids these days than when WE were kids. Yet, they are still going through the same emotional mess that we went through, think similar thoughts and eventually come out on the other side and turn into reasonable adults.

However, if you're living with a young teenage girl, or work near or with them and have forgotten what it's like to be that young or are just trying to figure them out, the following free thought, free form exercise written in a moment of self reflection may help. You will see that it is typically angst ridden and full of drama and all centered on the speaker, completely self involved as only a young teenager can be.

While reading this, you will also see how the writer flits from thought to thought and emotion to emotion. She skitters and jumps and emots wildly. Only the young can think and feel like this. An adult's brain would explode if it had to do this day in and day out. It really is no wonder that you never know if you're going to talk to Jekyl or Hyde, because they don't know who they are going to be from moment to moment either.

Do note, this was done off the cuff, with no thought given to punctuation or sentence structure. The writer just sat down and wrote her feelings of the moment and is published in it's original form.

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The girl who stands alone, eats alone, and is friends with herself.
the girl that hates who she loves, who likes who she is hated by,
who watched those 3 girls, soon to be 4 who used to be her
friends, laugh at her. The one called emo, though she has never cut
herself, the one who really hates no one, but herself, the one who
is not scared of death, but of life, the one who stares out blankly
at the world, while her life spins, the one who, while they run from
the rain, she walks in it and she enjoys it,

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