In Gray Area: Perspective of the Teenage Mind

Hi! It's Lou!

So around November or so (I’ve kinda lost track) a friend of mine and I were just sitting on her bed, ranting about the world—as people have the tendency to do at times. In a spectrum of crying and ranting we soon came to realize how very unheard we really felt, every day. As teenagers, as misfits, as kids whom don’t really seem to be of that much relevance to the adults that basically rule the world. More or less, we were hit with this reality. That sounds very dramatic, I know, but that’s how it felt at the time. a few days later, we got to thinking… what if we could change that. yes, when we rant everything that we’ve ever felt between words and sobs to our parents, it does sound irrelevant, and rash. But what if we wrote these things down? All this feeling of… teenagerhood. All these thing that we've always wanted to scream at the world but really known how? What if we could make everything hormonal and rash and irrelevant, suddenly seem of logic to someone other than ourselves.

This is a collection of small stories written and organized by various (actual, real) teenagers. Here are our thoughts and stories, we hope you enjoy them. At the very least, hear us.