...I started working at a cafeteria in the city, I began listening to underground Hip Hop and I got a little sister.
I grew up in a suburban to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. My parents divorced when I was eleven, for the better, and I mostly lived with my mother during my education.
When I was a teenager I was like everybody else, trying to fit in to the society of young people. Like a teenager I wasn't hard to deal with and I didn't need that extra attention that people do need sometime. I was, and still am, very independent and did my homework by myself without extra help from my parents. I think that the divorce made me stand on my own legs and take care of myself.
In school I was ambitious and I went in my own direction, I did not really follow everybody else like other do (only dead fishes follow the stream) and after being raised with two brothers, I was not the typical girly girl that started using make up at the age of thirteen.
When I was fourteen I started working during the summer and sometimes during weekends at a cafeteria in the city. From then til now I can see how life was so simple when you were so young, you did not need to pay any bills, you did not have to think about any insurance and you always had dinner at the table when you got home, well most of the times you did. The only thing you thought about was the weekends and what you wanted to do on your free time. It was not simpler than that.
When you are that young, everything matters. You try to take in so much impressions and trying to figure out what you are about to do with them, how to respond and how to act. Being so young is not the easiest thing, not when the society and the world around you simply express how you are going to behave and how you suppose to be as an individual.
With this in our backpack - we can look back, see how easy it was back then - and carry on with the knowledge that everything changes and that life goes on.
I grew up in a suburban to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. My parents divorced when I was eleven, for the better, and I mostly lived with my mother during my education.
When I was a teenager I was like everybody else, trying to fit in to the society of young people. Like a teenager I wasn't hard to deal with and I didn't need that extra attention that people do need sometime. I was, and still am, very independent and did my homework by myself without extra help from my parents. I think that the divorce made me stand on my own legs and take care of myself.
In school I was ambitious and I went in my own direction, I did not really follow everybody else like other do (only dead fishes follow the stream) and after being raised with two brothers, I was not the typical girly girl that started using make up at the age of thirteen.
When I was fourteen I started working during the summer and sometimes during weekends at a cafeteria in the city. From then til now I can see how life was so simple when you were so young, you did not need to pay any bills, you did not have to think about any insurance and you always had dinner at the table when you got home, well most of the times you did. The only thing you thought about was the weekends and what you wanted to do on your free time. It was not simpler than that.
When you are that young, everything matters. You try to take in so much impressions and trying to figure out what you are about to do with them, how to respond and how to act. Being so young is not the easiest thing, not when the society and the world around you simply express how you are going to behave and how you suppose to be as an individual.
With this in our backpack - we can look back, see how easy it was back then - and carry on with the knowledge that everything changes and that life goes on.
I like your story very much. You experienced many things when you were very young, and those things made you turning so independent. You let me know a different life, and also you make me thinking about growing up, family, and society. Thank you for sharing your story! I expect more stories from you!!
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