Thirteen

[shadesong]

Here's what Adam and I are giving Elayna for her thirteenth birthday on Saturday - a custom necklace by kythryne, with thirteen leaves and thirteen flowers.

Thirteen is a big birthday. A big year. A big change.

So tell Elayna - what was thirteen like for you?

Comments to this post will be presented to Elayna bound in the best format I can manage on short notice. :)

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Erm. Something along the lines of "Thirteen sucks but I lived through it" would be better than graphic descriptions of Hell.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

When I was thirteen, I found myself on the receiving end of a gigantic number of expectations, from my parents, from my peers, and from myself. I was now supposed to be old enough to deal with it all. I was now old enough to know better.

The problems were many, but they boiled down to this: the large expectations contradicted the others. It was literally not possible to live up to them.

Penalties for failure were many, delivered mostly by my peers, but often by myself. Many times, I just wanted to give up.

Never give up. It all gets better, even if not immediately. Survive to tell the tale, and one day, you'll find yourself not just surviving but really living.