Is it possible to feel both loved and hated by the ones closest to you? If it is, then I guess I experience it everyday. I feel like I have to be on my best behavior whenever I am near my friends. I can't every really let lose unless it is with someone super close. I always have to kept drawn close. What do I do to experience only love? Even in a room with all my closest friends, I never feel...

I'm 15 years old. I live in the suburbs. I have no cell phone or Facebook. I think I want more, but know I need less. There is food in my fridge and lights at night. I take so much for granted and never say thank you for it. I know that if I go anywhere else, I will see people living in the streets and crying over pretzels. I don't know what goes through my mind when I am upset at something that...

As a freshman in high school, no one expects you to know anything. It makes you feel like your nothing, like you are a tiny speck of dirt on the huge pile of trash called "the best years of our lives." We have all been there, but when you think back to it, you never expected anyone to understand how you feel. You were not quite grown up, but you were not quite considered young. You were that...