It's Not All That Easy

Note: I wrote this to raise awareness of the major problems of some kids, that some adults continue to leave unaddressed. But, just like the some adults who have major problems, we don't want ours to be completely disgarded.

It is a mystery why many adults reckon that kids have such easy lives, especially since only a few decades ago, they were children themselves. I wonder if, due to an unfortunate case of memory loss, they remember their childhood as a simple, unproblematic, care-free, and happy-go-lucky life. If they continue to be unaware of what is really happening in the lives of some of today's children, then I'm afraid of how long this is going to continue unaddressed. I do not want adults to continue to believe that a day in the life of all American Children is like the day in the life of my cat: happy, care-free.
Maybe not all of us kids are worrying about paying the bills or problems at work, but that does not mean that the pressure to be buff and beautiful, thin and big-busted doesn’t exist. The media tells us that, if we’re not all these, we might not be, well, anyone at all.
All this strain can lead to very nasty problems indeed. Bulimia & anorexia, depression, or a feeling of rejection that never goes away. Far too many of cases like these have ended in suicide. It’s so sad that many adults don’t realize what many kids go through until a disaster like this occurs.
Many adults just don’t believe that our life could possibly be as tough as theirs. Undoubtedly, many of us have it easier then our elders, and we can accept that. But far to many elders cannot recognize that many of them have no problems at all compared to a child, possibly their own, or one they know. It is partially this unawareness of our problems that causes these tragedies, and partly our inevitable exposure to the media which tells us to look a certain way or be a certain person. When we discover we can’t be that person, what I listed before can happen.
Because some (I’m not saying 100% of) adults figure we’re not having many problems, they go back to being caught up in their own. If they don’t think we’re having troubles, they don’t question us about it until, in some cases, it’s too late.
I hope that I have raised the awareness of anyone who’s reading this. My aim was, not to criticize adults, but simply to remind them of what some kids’ lives are like, and not to let that go unnoticed.