Last night I slept over at my cousins house because they were having a party. At around one everybody had left me my sister and my cousin, Krystal, were all in Krystal's room. So we all sat there and talked about normal things and supposed sexualities of other family members while Krystal cut my hair. My other cosin, Jacob, came in and so we went on talking till he brought up ghost stories. Jacob...

When most people think someone is feeling the pressure to be thin, it usually comes from peers. In my case it's my entire family. I'm 5'6 and way 125 pounds but according to the rest of my family i'm a fatty. My mom is always telling me that i need to lose weight and watch what i eat. It really doesn't help that my girl cousin is 5'10 and only 117 pounds.My grandma called recently and i was happy...

Today at school this girl who sits across from me in Social studies asked "Are you wearing the same jeans as monday?" In my mind I'm like WTF is wrong with this girl! But trying to be polite I say sure and then she asks me how many pairs of jeans I have and i say four. Then that girl's like two pairs are only like eighty dollars so i should go buy some more. I then try to explain to her that we...

Yesterday I realized how much pressure is thrust upon the younger generation to grow up and be 'mature'. I was sitting in the classroom and the teacher kept on telling us to grow up. However, we aren't grown up yet so why do they tell us to act like adults when were still children? We have our problems too and they don't realize that. We don't have the chance too still act like children in this...