An Open Letter to parents with teens about how teenagers should be allowed to decide if they can receive cosmetic surgery
Dear parents of teens,
Do any of your teenagers complain about self-esteem and how their body image is not what they want? It has come to plastic surgeons’ attentions that today more teens are getting plastic surgery than ever before. Some parents may worry about media portrayals sparking the want of plastic surgery, why their kids feel like they do not look good enough just the way they are, and what causes their children to have these negative feelings towards their physical features. I completely understand your concerns, but if happiness can be the main result of your child's plastic surgery procedure, then those concerns should vanish for your child’...
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I wasn't a little girl. I was twenty-four years old. Been living with my husband for almost six years. I knew you and mom were having some difficulties. I would of never dreamed it was something you couldn't work passed together. Thirty something years you were together. But here I am now, writing this letter in which you will never read because I have no intentions of speaking to you. I stayed through moms side through the whole divorce. I knew she needed me. There were little things she'd say that would ignite a rage so deep inside of me that I would just have to walk away. But you know the difference between you and I? I would come back. Because I could not for the life of me, walk away from my mother. My mother who gave me life, who taught me to be kind to other people yet take no...
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Sadness. Tears. Trembling. Shaking. It's the kind of sadness that makes you tremble. It's the kind of sadness that makes your bones and your muscles ache. You’ve never experienced such a thing until he left. One month ago he left you. But what he didn’t take with him is the memories, the feeling of his lips intertwined with yours or the way his skin pressed against yours, or the way your hands fit perfectly in his. What he did take with him was what he stole from you. The way his hands touched parts of you that you wouldnt allow anyone else to come near. Baby, i promise he didnt use you for that. Let go of the feeling of the way his words stuck to your brain. You will never be able to do anything the same. When you go to the grocery store youll get a sinking feeling when you look at the...
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I am crying so loud as I write to you all I cannot hear my music...I cannot get up from my seat as my heart is so heavy with sadness..
Why is your fear and anger, leading you blindly chanting words ?
Fear is ignorance.. of who are you so ignorant that it causes this fear ?
Ignorance breeds violence, feel better now ?
Do you honestly believe that the new President will be allowed that much power ? ...he needs help, which he will get in no small measure from all the Republicans who know what to do.
Allow yourselves to breathe and do some constructive thinking and actions that will lead to an united state of living...
An UNITED STATE OF LIVING together....
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It's been almost 6 months since you've left us. I still flash back to the day you had gone. I was sitting on the prettiest deck in Northern California. I had seen you just days before.. I was listening music to ease my mind as I sat and looked at the trees in the wind.
As I stared up at the sky, bright blue, redwoods flowing in the breeze.. everything seemed to have stopped completely. Not a sound was made as the trees became still, the music stopped, and I felt my heart skip a beat.
I will never forget this day. May 15th. The day I felt the earth stop because an angel was sent to heaven.
I felt a sense of relief as the wind started again. Every time I feel like I can't make it anymore, I think back to this day.. and you remind me that I can..
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The future now is unpredictable. So much hate and war and pain... I hope you never hate me for bringing you into such a world.
When you were born I wanted nothing but happiness for you. I hoped for great things in your future and pictured our happy life as a family.
But with current events now I'm scared for what your life will be like. The country that borders our own elected a man who thinks of women as objects and minority groups as scum, people are all becoming so full of hate, and violence everywhere.
I know life won't be easy but I hope you never have to be put through any negativity because of this farce.
I want you to live life and love being you. I want you to never feel like your body belongs to anyone but you. I want you to feel like your opinion matters. I want you to...
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To my dear Gran,
When I was a child you used to tell me about your brother, Ramsey who lost his life in WWII. You spoke with tears glistening in your eyes, I could see the sadness that his memory bought you. So I never asked you any questions about him, I never helped to continue the conversation about him, I never asked you your memories of your brother who was only 19 when his life was taken from him in the horrors of war. What I didn't realise is that you wanted to talk about him, you wanted to remember your younger brother and you wanted to be asked questions about him so that the conversation wouldn't end.
I am so sorry for realising this too late. I wasn't good at questions and when I was young I didn't think people would want to talk about the war.
I wish so much now...
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Dear, dad.
I hate how fake you are in public. I hate how much guilt you put on mom. I hate how you make your son feel unwanted. I hate how every time we call you out on these things you shove off the fault onto our shoulders. But I don't hate that you hate me. I hate how you emotionally destroyed our family.
You come home from work, expecting to be praised for doing the same things millions of other people do everyday. You call us ungrateful, worthless, and disrespectful.
You expected mom to return to work and house chores as soon as she was out of surgery. Which is understandable when you didn't go to any of her appointments. For what she went through, she is lucky she isn't paralyzed. She isn't supposed to lift her arms above her head, carry more than 10 pounds, work... but you...
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To my little brother and my little sister
I love you. I love you so damn much that I gave up my chance to get away from our family. College was going to be my escape, my grand get-away. Until your conception was announced during my senior year of high school. Now I go to college an hour and a half away from home. Too far from you both, but too close to your parents. In the end, though, it was my choice to stay close by. I did it for you, for myself, but not for them.
Do not mistake this for a love letter—it is an apology. I’m sorry that I was not good enough for our mother. I’m sorry that I never stood up to her for the abuse she put me through because I know that you will suffer the same fate. I’m sorry that I did not fight back; make her see her true self, so that you...
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Despite everything, you are the strongest man I know. I will always admire you. You show your strength even at your weakest. You are inspiring, and I hope to grow up and be like you and Mom. You never gave up on me, even when I was a hormonal toddler or when I was a troubled teen. No matter where the sickness takes us, I want you to know these things. Dad, these are my promises to you.
1. I will take care of myself, because I know it hurt you when I was battling my eating disorder.
2. I will watch A Christmas Story every Christmas, no matter how old I get. It's a tradition that I will never let die.
3. I will never lose the values I share with you.
4. I will always remember that you were the first man to ever love me.
5. I will always appreciate what I have, because I know...
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