12 Year Old Me Essay
To the Twelve-Year-Old Me
Dear 12-year-old Sydney,
I want to say to you that it is fine to maintain your innocent mind. You did not grow up too fast, but this caused a jolt for you later in life. When you progress to high school, you will realize just how innocent your childhood was. Everyone around you is not innocent, and they have not been for a long time. They ruined their own childhood by growing up too fast. You preserved yours as long as you could without being called naïve. In high school, your innocence is destroyed. If I could tell you anything, it would be to prepare yourself for what is coming. Prepare for the shock of your life. I know you have not read this book yet, but “I am Charlotte Simmons” will pinpoint this experience. In “I am Charlotte Simmons” by Tom Wolfe, Charlotte Simmons has her world turned upside down when she goes to college. She discovered that she was highly sheltered all her life and was just now experiencing real life. This moment for Charlotte was the same moment you will have when you enter ninth grade.
Growing up, you were a highly sheltered child. You did not know there was unkindness in the world, about sex, and you did …show more content…
The kids that you thought you knew were totally different. You were under the impression that we all had the same innocence and sheltered aspects to us, but you were wrong. Everyone else knew about sex and partying and you still had no clue. Up until that point, you did not know how a woman became pregnant. All the information you are exposed to made freshman year sort of a blur. I want you to remember the good times of freshman year instead of the blurriness of all this information coming at you at once. Everyone figures this information out eventually, and I would rather it happen in high school than waiting until college like Charlotte did. By then, I feel it is too late to realize these things, but any earlier than high school is too
Dear 12-year-old Sydney,
I want to say to you that it is fine to maintain your innocent mind. You did not grow up too fast, but this caused a jolt for you later in life. When you progress to high school, you will realize just how innocent your childhood was. Everyone around you is not innocent, and they have not been for a long time. They ruined their own childhood by growing up too fast. You preserved yours as long as you could without being called naïve. In high school, your innocence is destroyed. If I could tell you anything, it would be to prepare yourself for what is coming. Prepare for the shock of your life. I know you have not read this book yet, but “I am Charlotte Simmons” will pinpoint this experience. In “I am Charlotte Simmons” by Tom Wolfe, Charlotte Simmons has her world turned upside down when she goes to college. She discovered that she was highly sheltered all her life and was just now experiencing real life. This moment for Charlotte was the same moment you will have when you enter ninth grade.
Growing up, you were a highly sheltered child. You did not know there was unkindness in the world, about sex, and you did …show more content…
The kids that you thought you knew were totally different. You were under the impression that we all had the same innocence and sheltered aspects to us, but you were wrong. Everyone else knew about sex and partying and you still had no clue. Up until that point, you did not know how a woman became pregnant. All the information you are exposed to made freshman year sort of a blur. I want you to remember the good times of freshman year instead of the blurriness of all this information coming at you at once. Everyone figures this information out eventually, and I would rather it happen in high school than waiting until college like Charlotte did. By then, I feel it is too late to realize these things, but any earlier than high school is too